The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume C The Early Modern Period
ISBN: 9780205625970 | 0205625975
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 6/30/2008
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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume Coffers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the early modern period. The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected and grouped materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the anthology, between eras as well as regions. The anthology includes epic, lyric poetry, drama, and prose narrative, with many works in their entirety. Classic major... MORE
| Volume C: The Early Modern Period | |
| Vernacular Writing In South Asia | |
| Basavanna (1106- c. 1167) | |
| Like a monkey on a tree | |
| You can make them talk | |
| The crookedness of the serpent | |
| Before the grey reaches the check | |
| I don't know anything like time-beats and meter | |
| The rich will make temples for Siva | |
| Resonance | ... MORE|
| Palkuriki Somanatha: from The Lore of Basavanna | |
| Mahadeviyakka (c. 1200) | |
| Other men are thorn | |
| Who cares | |
| Better than meeting | |
| Kabir (early 1400s) | |
| Saints, I see the world is mad | |
| Brother, where did your two gods come from? | |
| Pandit, look in your heart for knowledge | |
| When you die, what do you do with your body? | |
| It's a heavy confusion | |
| The road the pandits took | |
| Tukaram (1608-1649) | |
| I was only dreaming | |
| If only you would | |
| Have I utterly lost my hold on reality | |
| I scribble and cancel it again | |
| Where does one begin with you? | |
| Some of you may say | |
| To arrange words | |
| When my father died | |
| Born a Shudra, I have been a trader | |
| Kshetrayya (mid-17th century) | |
| A Woman to Her Lover | |
| A Young Woman to a Friend | |
| A Courtesan to Her Lover | |
| A Married Woman Speaks to Her Lover | |
| A Married Woman to Her Lover (1) | |
| A Married Woman to Her Lover (2) | |
| Wu Cheng'en (c. 1506-1581) from Journey to the West | |
| The Rise Of The Vernacular In Europe | |
| Attacking And Defending The Vernacular Bible | |
| Henry Knighton: from Chronicle | |
| Martin Luther: from On Translating: An Open Letter | |
| The King James Bible: from The Translators to the Reader | |
| Women And The Vernacular | |
| Dante Alighieri: from Letter to Can Grande della Scala | |
| Erasmus: from The Abbot and the Learned Lady | |
| Catherine of Siena: from Letter to Raymond of Capua | |
| Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: from Response to "Sor Filotea" | |
| Early Modern Europe | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) | |
| Decameron | |
| Introduction | |
| First Day, Third Story (The Three Rings) | |
| Third Day, Tenth Story (Locking the Devil Up in Hell) | |
| Seventh Day, Fourth Story (The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out) | |
| Tenth Day, Tenth Story (The Patient Griselda) | |
| Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549) | |
| Heptameron | |
| First Day, Story 5 (The Two Friars) | |
| Fourth Day, Story 32 (The Woman Who Drank from Her Lover's Skull) | |
| Fourth Day, Story 36 (The Husband Who Punished His Faithless Wife by Means of a Salad) | |
| Eighth Day, Prologue | |
| Eighth Day, Story 71 (The Wife Who Came Back from the Dead) | |
| Francis Petrach (1304-1374) | |
| Letters on Familiar Matters | |
| To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro (On Climbing Mt. Ventoux) | |
| from To Boccaccio (On imitation) | |
| Resonance | |
| Laura Cereta: To Sister Deodata di Leno | |
| The Canzoniere | |
| During the Life of My Lady Laura | |
| "O you who hear within these scattered verses" | |
| "It was the day the sun's ray had turned pale" | |
| "The old man takes his leave, white-haired and pale" | |
| "Alone and deep in thought I measure out" | |
| "She'd let her gold hair flow free in the breeze" | |
| "Clear, cool, sweet running waters" | |
| "From day to day my face and hair are changing" | |
| After the Death of My Lady Laura | |
| "O God! That lovely face, that gentle look" | |
| "If Love does not give me some new advice" | |
| "When I see coming down the sky Aurora" | |
| "That nightingale so tenderly lamenting" | |
| Resonance | |
| Virgil: from Fourth Georgic | |
| "O lovely little bird singing away" | |
| "I go my way lamenting those past times" | |
| from 366 "Virgin, so lovely, clothed in the sun's light" | |
| Resonances: Petrarch and His Translators | |
| Petrarch: Canzoniere 190 | |
| Thoman Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt | |
| Petrarch: Canzoniere 209 | |
| Chiara Matraini: Fera son io di questo ambroso loco | |
| Chiara Matraini: I am a wild deer in this shady wood | |
| Translations: Petrach's Canzoniere 52 "Diana never pleased her lover more" | |
| Perspectives: Lyric Sequences and Self-Definition | |
| Louise Labé (c. 1520-1566) | |
| When I behold you | |
| Lute, companion of my wretched state | |
| Kiss me again | |
| Alas, what boots it that not long ago | |
| Do not reproach me, Ladies | |
| Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) | |
| This comes of dangling from the ceiling | |
| My Lord, in your most gracious face(trans. | |
| I wish to want, Lord | |
| No block of marble | |
| How chances it, my Lady | |
| Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547) | |
| Between harsh rocks and violent wind | |
| Whatever life I once had | |
| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
| "From fairest creatures we desire increase" | |
| "Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest" | |
| "Who will believe my verse in time to come" | |
| "Not marble nor the gilded monuments" | |
| "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" | |
| "Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing" | |
| "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" | |
| "O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power" | |
| "In the old age black was not counted fair" | |
| "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" | |
| Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) | |
| Laments | |
| "Come, Heraclitus and Simonides" | |
| "Dear little Slavic Sappho, we had thought" | |
| "My dear delight, my Ursula and where" | |
| "Where are those gates through which so long ago" | |
| Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (c. 1651-1695) | |
| She disavows the flattery visible in a portrait of herself | |
| She complains of her lot | |
| She shows distress at being abused for the applause her talent brings | |
| In which she visits moral censure on a rose | |
| She answers suspicions in the rhetoric of tears | |
| On the death of that most excellent lady, Marquise de Mancera | |
| Crosscurrents | |
| Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) | |
| The Prince | |
| Dedicatory Letter | |
| On New Principalities acquired by Means of Ones Own Arms and Ingenuities | |
| How a Prince Should Keep His Word | |
| How Much Fortune Can DO in Human Affairs and How to Contend with it | |
| Exhortation to Take Hold of Italy and Liberate Her from the Barbarians | |
| Resonance | |
| Baldesar Castiglione: from The Book of the Courtier Singleton | |
| FrançOis Rablais (c. 1495-1553) | |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel | |
| The Author's Prologue | |
| How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months in His Mother's Belly | |
| How Gargamelle, When Great with Gargantua, Ate Great Quantities of Tripe | |
| The Very Strange Manner of Gargantua's Birth | |
| How Gargantua Received His Name | |
| Concerning Gargantua's Childhood | |
| How Gargantua Was Sent to Paris | |
| How Gargantua Repaid the Parisians for Their Welcome | |
| Gargantua's Studies | |
| How Gargantua Was So Disciplined by Ponocrates | |
| How a Great Quarrel Arose Between the Cake-bakers of Lerné and the People of Grandgousier's | |
| Country, Which Led to Great Wars | |
| How the Inhabitants of Lerné, at the Command of Their King Pierchole, Made an Unexpected Attack on Grandgousier's Shepards | |
| How a Monk of Scuilly Saved the Abbey-close | |
| How Gargantua Ate Six Pilgrims in a Salad | |
| How the Monk Was Feasted by Gargantua | |
| Why Monks are Shunned by the World | |
| How the Monk Made Gargantua Sleep | |
| How the Monk Encouraged His Companions | |
| How Gargantua Had the Abbey of Thèléme Built for the Monk | |
| How the Thèlémites' Abbey Was Built and Endowed | |
| The Rules According to Which the Thèmélites Lived | |
| How Pantagruel found Panurge | |
| How Pantagruel found Panurge | |
| Pantagruel, on the High Seas, Hears Various Words That Have Been Thawed | |
| Pantagruel Hears some Gay Words | |
| LuíS Vaz De Camões (c. 1524-1580) | |
| The Lusíads | |
| (Invocation) | |
| (King Manuel's death) | |
| (The curse of Adamastor) | |
| (The storm; the voyagers reach India) | |
| (Courage, heroes!) | |
| Resonance | |
| from Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco de Gama | |
| Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) | |
| Essays | |
| Of Idleness | |
| Of the Power of the Imagination | |
| Of Repentance | |
| Of Cannibals | |
| Resonance | |
| Jean de Léry: from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America | |
| Of Repentance | |
| Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) | |
| Don Quixote | |
| The character of the knight | |
| His first expedition | |
| He attains knighthood | |
| An adventure on leaving the inn | |
| The knight's misfortunes continue | |
| The inquisitions in the library | |
| His second expedition | |
| The adventure of the windmills | |
| The battle with the gallant Basque | |
| A conversation with Sancho | |
| His meeting with the goatherds | |
| The goatherd's story | |
| The conclusion of the story | |
| The dead shepherd's verses | |
| The meeting with Yanguesans | |
| A second conversation with Sancho | |
| A tremendous exploit achieved | |
| The liberation of the gallery slaves | |
| The knight's penitence | |
| The last adventure | |
| The knight, the squire and the bachelor | |
| Sancho provides answers | |
| Dulcinea enchanted | |
| Master Pedro the puppeteer | |
| The puppet show | |
| An extraordinary adventure at an inn | |
| Knight and squire return to their village | |
| A discussion about omens | |
| The death of Don Quixote | |
| Resonance | |
| Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | |
| Lope De Vega Carpio (1562-1635) | |
| Fuenteovejuna | |
| William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
| Othello, The Tragedy of the Moor of Mariam | |
| The Tempest | |
| Resonance | |
| Aimé Césaire: from A Tempest | |
| John Donne (1572-1631) | |
| The Sun Rising | |
| Elegy: Going to Bed | |
| Air and Angels | |
| A Valediction: Forbidding mourning | |
| The Relic | |
| The Computation | |
| Holy Sonnets | |
| Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned | |
| Death be not proud, though some have called thee | |
| Batter my heart, three-person'd God | |
| I am a little world made cunningly | |
| Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one | |
| The Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions | |
| "They find the disease to steal on insensibly" | |
| from 17 "Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me: Thou must die" | |
| Sermons from The Second Prebend Sermon, on Psalm 63:7 "Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice" | |
| Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) | |
| The Author to Her Book | |
| To my Dear and Loving Husband | |
| A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment | |
| Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
| Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 | |
| On My Dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet | |
| To My Dear Children | |
| John Milton (1608-1674) | |
| On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | |
| When I Consider How My Light is Spent | |
| Paradise Lost | |
| Mesoamerica: Before Columbus And After Cortès | |
| from POPOL VUH: THE MAYAN COUNCIL BOOK (recorded mid-1550s) | |
| Creation | |
| Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Underworld | |
| The Final Creation of Humans | |
| Migration and the Division of Languages | |
| The Death of the Quiché Forefathers | |
| Retrieving Writings from the East | |
| Conclusion | |
| Songs Of The Aztec Nobility (15th -16th century) | |
| Burnishing them as sunshot jades | |
| Flowers are our only adornment | |
| I cry, I grieve, knowing we're to go away | |
| Your hearts are shaken down as paintings, Moctezuma | |
| I strike it up-here!-I, the singer | |
| from Fish Song: It was composed when we were conquered | |
| from Water-Pouring Song | |
| In the flower house of sapodilla you remain a flower | |
| Moctezuma, you creature of heaven, you sing in Mexico | |
| Translations: Songs of the Aztec Nobility: Make your beginning, you who sing Perspectives: The Conquest and its Aftermath | |
| Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) | |
| from Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella (7 July 1503) | |
| Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) | |
| from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain | |
| Hernando Ruíz de Alarcón (c. 1587-1645) | |
| from Treatise on the Superstitions of the Natives of this New Spain | |
| Resonance | |
| Julio Cortázar: Axolotl | |
| Bartolomé de las Casas from Apologetic History | |
| Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz (c. 1651-1695) from The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of The Divine Narcissus | |
| Crosscurrents | |
| Bibliography | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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