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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume C The Early Modern Period

ISBN: 9780321169792 | 0321169794
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/27/2004

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SummaryTable of Contents
The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume C offers 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 majo... MORE
List of Illustrations
xv
Prefacexvii
Acknowledgmentsxxii
About the Editorsxxiv
The Ea... MORE
1(8)
Timeline
6(3)
CROSSCURRENTS The Vernacular Revolution
9(140)
Vernacular Writing in South Asia
10(20)
Basavanna (1106-c. 1167)
12(5)
Like a monkey on a tree
12(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
You can make them talk
12(1)
The crookedness of the serpent
12(1)
Before the grey reaches the cheek
12(1)
I don't know anything like time-beats and meter
13(1)
The rich will make temples for Siva
13(1)
Resonance
Palkuriki Somanatha: from The Legend of Basavanna
14(3)
Rao
Mahadeviyakka (c. 1200)
17(1)
Other men are thorn
17(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
Who cares
18(1)
Better than meeting
18(1)
Kabir (early 1400s)
18(3)
Saints, I see the world is mad
18(1)
Hess
Sinha
Brother, where did your two gods come from?
19(1)
Pandit, look in your heart for knowledge
20(1)
When you die, what do you do with your body?
20(1)
It's a heavy confusion
21(1)
The road the pandits took
21(1)
Tukaram (1608-1649)
21(4)
I was only dreaming
21(1)
Dilip Chitre
If only you would
22(1)
Have I utterly lost my hold on reality
22(1)
I scribble and cancel it again
23(1)
Where does one begin with you?
23(1)
Some of you may say
23(1)
To arrange words
23(1)
When my father died
24(1)
Born a Shudra, I have been a trader
25(1)
Kshetrayya (mid-17th century)
25(5)
A Woman to Her Lover
25(1)
A. K. Ramanujan
A Young Woman to a Friend
26(1)
A Courtesan to Her Lover
27(1)
A Married Woman Speaks to Her Lover
28(1)
A Married Woman to Her Lover (1)
29(1)
A Married Woman to Her Lover (2)
29(1)
Wu Cheng' En (c. 1500-1582)
30(84)
from Journey to the West
33(81)
Anthony C. Yu
Resonance
from The Ramayana of Valmiki: [Hanuman searches for Sita]
108(6)
Goldman
Goldman
The Rise of the Vernacular in Europe
114(35)
Biblical Translations
115(12)
Comparative Versions of Psalm 23 (``The Lord Is My Shepherd'')
116(1)
from The Vulgate (with English rendering)
116(1)
Clement Marot: from Psalms
117(1)
Jane Tylus
Jan Kochanowski: from Psalterz Dawidow
118(1)
Clare Cavanagh
The Bay Psalm Book
119(1)
The Gospel of Luke 1:26--39
120(1)
Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici: from The Life of Saint John the Baptist
120(1)
Jane Tylus
Martin Luther: from The Bible
121(1)
James A. Parente, Jr.
William Tyndale: from The New Testament
122(1)
New World Psalms
122(1)
Bernardino de Sahagun: from Psalmodia Christiana
122(4)
Arthur J. O. Anderson
John Eliot: from Up-Biblum God
126(1)
Attacking and Defending the Vernacular Bible
127(5)
Henry Knighton: from Chronicle
128(1)
Anne Hudson
Martin Luther: from On Translating
128(2)
Michael
Bachmann
The King James Bible: from The Translators to the Reader
130(2)
Women and the Vernacular
132(17)
Dante Alighieri: from Letter to Can Grande Della Scala
133(1)
Robert S. Haller
Desiderius Erasmus: from The Abbot and the Learned Lady
134(3)
Craig Thompson
Catherine of Siena: from A Letter to Raymond of Capua
137(1)
Suzanne Noffke
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: from Response to ``Sor Filotea''
138(11)
Margaret Sayers Peden
Early Modern Europe
149(77)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
162(26)
Decameron
164(24)
G. H. McWilliam
Introduction
164(7)
First Day, Third Story [The Three Rings]
171(1)
Third Day, Tenth Story [Locking the Devil Up in Hell]
172(4)
Seventh Day, Fourth Story [The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out]
176(3)
Tenth Day, Tenth Story [The Patient Griselda]
179(9)
Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549)
188(11)
Heptameron
189(10)
P. A. Chilton
First Day, Story 5 [The Two Friars]
189(3)
Fourth Day, Story 32 [The Woman Who Drank from Her Lover's Skull]
192(3)
Fourth Day, Story 36 [The Husband Who Punished His Faithless Wife by Means of a Salad]
195(1)
Eighth Day, Prologue
196(1)
Eighth Day, Story 71 [The Wife Who Came Back from the Dead]
197(2)
Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)
199(27)
Letters On Familiar Matters
201(11)
Aldo S. Bernardo
To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro [On Climbing Mt. Ventoux]
201(5)
from To Boccaccio [On imitation]
206(2)
Resonance
Laura Cereta: To Sister Deodata di Leno
208(4)
Robin
The Canzoniere
212(5)
Mark Musa
During the Life of My Lady Laura
213(1)
1 (``O you who hear within these scattered verses'')
213(1)
3 (``It was the day the sun's ray had turned pale'')
213(1)
16 (``The old man takes his leave, white-haired and pale'')
214(1)
35 (``Alone and deep in thought I measure out'')
214(1)
52 (``Diana never pleased her lover more'')
214(1)
90 (``She'd let her gold hair flow free in the breeze'')
215(1)
126 (``Clear, cool, sweet running waters'')
215(2)
195 (``From day to day my face and hair are changing'')
217(1)
After the Death of My Lady Laura
217(9)
267 (``O God! that lovely face, that gentle look'')
217(1)
277 (``If Love does not give me some new advice'')
218(1)
291 (``When I see coming down the sky Aurora'')
218(1)
311 (``That nightingale so tenderly lamenting'')
218(1)
Resonance
Virgil: from Fourth Georgic
219(1)
Fairclough
353 (``O lovely little bird singing away'')
219(1)
365 (``I go my way lamenting those past times'')
220(1)
from 366 (``Virgin, so lovely, clothed in the sun's light'')
220(2)
Resonances: Petrarch and His Translators
222(1)
Petrarch: Canzoniere 190
222(1)
Durling
Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt
223(1)
Petrarch: Canzoniere 209
224(1)
Durling
Chiara Matraini: Fera son io di questo ombroso loco
225(1)
Chiara Matraini: I am a wild deer in this shady wood
225(1)
Stortoni
Lillie
PERSPECTIVES Lyric Sequences and Self-Definition
226(65)
Louise Labe (c. 1520-1566)
226(3)
When I behold you
227(1)
Frank J. Warnke
Lute, companion of my wretched state
227(1)
Kiss me again
228(1)
Alas, what boots it that not long ago
228(1)
Do not reproach me, Ladies
229(1)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
229(4)
This comes of dangling from the ceiling
231(1)
Porter
Bull
My Lord, in your most gracious face
231(1)
I wish to want, Lord
232(1)
No block of marble
232(1)
How chances it, my Lady
232(1)
Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547)
233(1)
Between harsh rocks and violent wind
233(1)
Stortoni
Lillie
Whatever life I once had
234(1)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
234(5)
Sonnets
235(1)
1 (``From fairest creatures we desire increase'')
235(1)
3 (``Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest'')
235(1)
17 (``Who will believe my verse in time to come'')
236(1)
55 (``Not marble nor the gilded monuments'')
236(1)
73 (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')
236(1)
87 (``Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing'')
237(1)
116 (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')
237(1)
126 (``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power'')
237(1)
127 (``In the old age black was not counted fair'')
238(1)
130 (``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'')
238(1)
Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584)
239(2)
Laments
239(1)
D. P. Radin
1 (``Come, Heraclitus and Simonides,'')
239(1)
6 (``Dear little Slavic Sappho, we had thought'')
240(1)
10 (``My dear delight, my Ursula and where'')
240(1)
14 (``Where are those gates through which so long ago'')
241(1)
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (c. 1651-1695)
241(4)
She disavows the flattery visible in a portrait of herself, which she calls bias
242(1)
Alan S. Trueblood
She complains of her lot, suggesting her aversion to vice and justifying her resort to the Muses
243(1)
She shows distress at being abused for the applause her talent brings
243(1)
In which she visits moral censure on a rose
243(1)
She answers suspicions in the rhetoric of tears
244(1)
Margaret Sayers Peden
On the death of that most excellent lady, the Marquise de Mancera
244(1)
Alan S. Trueblood
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
245(16)
The Prince
247(14)
Mark Musa
Dedicatory Letter
247(1)
Chapter 6. On New Principalities Acquired by Means of One's Own Arms and Ingenuity
248(2)
Chapter 18. How a Prince Should Keep His Word
250(1)
Chapter 25. How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs and How to Contend with It
251(2)
Chapter 26. Exhortation to Take Hold of Italy and Liberate Her from the Barbarians
253(3)
Resonance
Baldesar Castiglione: from The Book of the Courtier
256(5)
Singleton
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
261(30)
from Utopia
264(27)
C. G. Richards
PERSPECTIVES Literature of Religious Crisis
291(470)
Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466-1536)
292(15)
from Praise of Folly
293(14)
Betty Radice
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
307(5)
from To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
308(1)
Jacobs
Ackerman
from The Enslaved Will
308(4)
Ernst F. Winter
Thomas Muntzer (c. 1489-1525)
312(3)
from Sermon to the Princes
313(2)
Robert A. Fowkes
Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
315(9)
from The Interior Castle
316(8)
E. Allison Peers
Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
324(2)
The Dark Night
325(1)
John Frederick Nims
Domenico Scandella (1532-1599)
326(6)
from His Trials Before the Inquisition
327(5)
John
Anne C. Tedeschi
Francois Rabelais (c. 1494-1553)
332(40)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
J. M. Cohen
Book 1
335(1)
The Author's Prologue
335(2)
Chapter 3. How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months in His Mother's Belly
337(1)
Chapter 4. How Gargamelle, When Great with Gargantua, Ate Great Quantities of Tripe
338(1)
Chapter 6. The Very Strange Manner of Gargantua's Birth
339(1)
Chapter 7. How Gargantua Received His Name
340(1)
Chapter 11. Concerning Gargantua's Childhood
341(1)
Chapter 16. How Gargantua Was Sent to Paris
342(1)
Chapter 17. How Gargantua Repaid the Parisians for Their Welcome
343(2)
Chapter 21. Gargantua's Studies
345(1)
Chapter 23. How Gargantua Was So Disciplined by Ponocrates
346(4)
Chapter 25. How a Great Quarrel Arose Between the Cake-bakers of Lerne and the People of Grandgousier's Country, Which Led to Great Wars
350(1)
Chapter 26. How the Inhabitants of Lerne, at the Command of Their King Picrochole, Made an Unexpected Attack on Grandgousier's Shepherds
351(1)
Chapter 27. How a Monk of Seuilly Saved the Abbey-close
352(3)
Chapter 38. How Gargantua Ate Six Pilgrims in a Salad
355(1)
from Chapter 39. How the Monk Was Feasted by Gargantua
356(1)
Chapter 40. Why Monks Are Shunned by the World
357(2)
Chapter 41. How the Monk Made Gargantua Sleep
359(1)
Chapter 42. How the Monk Encouraged His Companions
360(1)
Chapter 52. How Gargantua Had the Abbey of Theleme Built for the Monk
361(1)
from Chapter 53. How the Thelemites' Abbey Was Built and Endowed
362(1)
Chapter 57. The Rules According to Which the Thelemites Lived
363(1)
Book 2
Chapter 8. How Pantagruel, When at Paris, Recieved a Letter from His Father
364(2)
from Chapter 9. How Pantagruel found Panurge
366(3)
Book 4
Chapter 55. Pantagruel, on the High Seas, Hears Various Words That Have Been Thawed
369(2)
Chapter 56. Pantagruel Hears Some Gay Words
371(1)
Luis Vaz De Camoes (c. 1524-1580)
372(37)
The Lusiads
375(34)
Landeg White
Canto 1 [Invocation]
375(4)
Canto 4 [King Manuel's dream]
379(9)
Canto 5 [The curse of Adamastor]
388(13)
Canto 6 [The storm; the voyagers reach India]
401(5)
Canto 7 [Courage, heroes!]
406(1)
Resonance
from The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497-1499)
407(2)
Ravenstein
Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592)
409(36)
Essays
412(33)
Donald Frame
Of Idleness
412(1)
Of the Power of the Imagination
413(7)
Of Cannibals
420(9)
Resonance
Jean de Lery: from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America
429(7)
Janet Whatley
Of Repentance
436(9)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
445(125)
Don Quixote
449(121)
John Rutherford
Book 1
449(1)
Chapter 1. The character of the knight
449(3)
Chapter 2. His first expedition
452(4)
Chapter 3. He attains knighthood
456(4)
Chapter 4. An adventure on leaving the inn
460(4)
Chapter 5. The knight's misfortunes continue
464(3)
from Chapter 6. The inquisition in the library
467(2)
Chapter 7. His second expedition
469(3)
Chapter 8. The adventure of the windmills
472(5)
Chapter 9. The battle with the gallant Basque
477(3)
Chapter 10. A conversation with Sancho
480(4)
from Chapter 11. His meeting with the goatherds
484(1)
Chapter 12. The goatherd's story
484(4)
from Chapter 13. The conclusion of the story
488(4)
from Chapter 14. The dead shepherd's verses
492(4)
from Chapter 15. The meeting with the Yanguesans
496(4)
from Chapter 18. A second conversation with Sancho
500(6)
Chapter 20. A tremendous exploit achieved
506(8)
Chapter 22. The liberation of the galley slaves
514(7)
from Chapter 25. The knight's penitence
521(5)
from Chapter 52. The last adventure
526(6)
Book 2
532(1)
Chapter 3. The knight, the squire and the bachelor
532(5)
Chapter 4. Sancho provides answers
537(2)
Chapter 10. Dulcinea enchanted
539(6)
from Chapter 25. Master Pedro the puppeteer
545(1)
Chapter 26. The puppet show
545(6)
Chapter 59. An extraordinary adventure at an inn
551(3)
Chapter 72. Knight and squire return to their village
554(3)
Chapter 73. A discussion about omens
557(3)
Chapter 74. The death of Don Quixote
560(4)
Resonance
Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
564(6)
Andrew Hurley
Lope Felix De Vega Carpio (1562-1635)
570(40)
Fuenteovejuna
573(37)
Jill Booty
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
610(65)
The Tempest
613(62)
Resonance
Aime Cesaire: from A Tempest
667(8)
Snyder
Upson
John Donne (1572-1631)
675(14)
The Sun Rising
676(1)
Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed
677(1)
Air and Angels
678(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
679(1)
The Relic
680(1)
The Computation
681(1)
Holy Sonnets
681(2)
Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned
681(1)
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
681(1)
Batter my heart, three-person'd God
682(1)
I am a little world made cunningly
682(1)
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one
682(1)
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
683(4)
10: ``They find the disease to steal on insensibly''
683(3)
from 17: ``Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me: Thou must die.''
686(1)
Sermons
687(2)
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'')
687(2)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
689(9)
The Author to Her Book
691(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband
691(1)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment
692(1)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
692(1)
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
693(1)
On My Dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet
694(1)
To My Dear Children
695(3)
John Milton (1608-1674)
698(63)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
701(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
701(1)
Paradise Lost
701(60)
from Book 1
701(9)
from Book 4
710(20)
Book 9
730(27)
from Book 12
757(4)
Mesoamerica: Before Columbus and After Cortes
761(49)
The Legend of the Suns (recorded 1558)
771(2)
Miguel Leon-Portilla
Grace Lobanov
from Popol Vuh: The Mayan Council Book (recorded mid-1550s)
773(23)
Dennis Tedlock
[Creation]
776(6)
[Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Underworld]
782(5)
[The Final Creation of Humans]
787(2)
[Migration and the Division of Languages]
789(3)
[The Death of the Quiche Forefathers]
792(1)
[Retrieving Writings from the East]
793(2)
[Conclusion]
795(1)
Songs of the Aztec Nobility (15th-16th century)
796(14)
Make your beginning, you who sing
798(1)
David Damrosch
Burnishing them as sunshot jades
799(1)
John Bierhorst
Flowers are our only adornment
799(1)
I cry, I grieve, knowing we're to go away
800(1)
Your hearts are shaken down as paintings, O Moctezuma
800(1)
I strike it up---here!---I, the singer
801(1)
from Fish Song: It was composed when we were conquered
802(2)
from Water-Pouring Song
804(5)
In the flower house of sapodilla you remain a flower
809(1)
Moctezuma, you creature of heaven, you sing in Mexico
809(1)
PERSPECTIVES The Conquest and Its Aftermath
810(79)
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
812(13)
Letter to the Sovereigns (4 March 1493)
814(5)
Margarita Zamora
from Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella (7 July 1503)
819(6)
R. H. Major
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (1492-1584)
825(21)
from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
826(20)
A. P. Maudslay
Bernardino De Sahagun (c. 1499-1590)
846(19)
from General History of the Affairs of New Spain
846(11)
Anderson
Dibble
from The Aztec-Spanish Dialogues of 1524
857(8)
Jorge Klor de Alva
Hernando Ruiz De Alarcon (c. 1587-c. 1645)
865(9)
from Treatise on the Superstitions of the Natives of this New Spain
865(6)
Coe
Whittaker
Resonance
Julio Cortazar: Axolotl
871(3)
Blackburn
Bartolome De Las Casas (1474-1566)
874(5)
from Apologetic History
875(4)
George Sanderlin
Sor Juana Inez De La Cruz (c. 1651-1695)
879(10)
from The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of the Divine Narcissus
880(9)
Peters
Domeier
Bibliography889(6)
Credits895(4)
Index899

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