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Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

by: Mack, Maynard; Knox, Bernard M. W.; McGalliard, John C.; Pasinetti, P. M.; Hugo, Howard E.; Spacks, Patricia Meyer; Wellek, René; Douglas, Kenneth; Lawall, Sarah

Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

by: Mack, Maynard; Knox, Bernard M. W.; McGalliard, John C.; Pasinetti, P. M.; Hugo, Howard E.; Spacks, Patricia Meyer; Wellek, René; Douglas, Kenneth; Lawall, Sarah

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Copyright: 01/17/1987
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Summary

A selection of Western literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages.

Preface to the Fifth Edition

xix

Masterpieces of the Ancient World

Introduction

(12)

The Old Testament (The King James Version)

(51)

Genesis 1--3. [The Creation---The Fall]

(4)

Genesis 4. [The First Murder]

(1)

Genesis 6--9. [The Flood]

(4)

Genesis 11. [The Origin of Languages]

(1)

Genesis 37--46. [The Story of Joseph]

(14)

From Job

(19)

Psalm 8

(1)

Psalm 19

(1)

Psalm 23

(1)

Psalm 104

(2)

Psalm 137

(1)

Isaiah 52--53. [The Song of the Suffering Servant]

(2)

Homer

(182)

From The Iliad

Richard Lattimore

[The Quarrel of Achilleus and Agamemnon]

(15)

[The Meeting of Hektor and Andromache]

(8)

[The Eve of Battle]

(1)

[The Embassy to Achilleus]

(18)

[The Arming of Achilleus]

111

(17)

[Achilleus Returns to the Battle]

128

(10)

[The Death of Hektor]

138

(14)

[Achilleus and Priam]

152

(20)

From the Odyssey

Robert Fitzgerald

The Princess at the River

172

(9)

The Songs of the Harper

181

(16)

New Coasts and Poseidon's Son

197

(15)

The Grace of the Witch

212

(15)

A Gathering of Shades

227

(19)

Sappho of Lesbos (born ca. 630 B.C.)

246

(3)

``Throned in splendor, deathless, O Aphrodite''

247

(1)

``Like the very gods in my sight is he...''

248

(1)

``Some there are who say that the fairest thing seen''

248

(1)

Richard Lattimore

Aeschylus (524?--456 B.C.)

249

(57)

Agamemnon

254

(52)

Robert Fagles

Sophocles (496--406 B.C.)

306

(52)

Oedipus the King

310

(48)

Robert Fagles

Euripides (480--406 B.C.)

358

(36)

Medea

360

(34)

Rex Warner

Aristophanes (450?--385? B.C.)

394

(37)

Lysistrata

395

(36)

Charles T. Murphy

Plato (429--347 B.C.)

431

(28)

The Apology of Socrates

432

(23)

Phaedo. [The Death of Socrates]

455

(4)

Benjamin Jowett

Aristotle (384--322 B.C.)

459

(5)

From Poetics

James Hutton

459

(5)

Catullus (84?--54? B.C.)

464

(6)

``Come, Lesbia, let us live and love''

465

(1)

``There are many who think of Quintia...''

465

(1)

``No woman, if she is honest, can say...''

465

(1)

``When at last after long despair...''

466

(1)

``My life, my love, you say our love will last forever''

466

(1)

``Lesbia speaks evil of me...''

466

(1)

``My woman says that she would rather wear the wedding-veil for me''

466

(1)

``There was a time, O Lesbia...''

467

(1)

``Were you born of a lioness...''

467

(1)

``I hate and love''

467

(1)

``You are the cause of this destruction, Lesbia''

467

(1)

``Poor damned Catullus, here's no time for nonsense''

468

(1)

``Caelius, my Lesbia, that one that only Lesbia''

468

(1)

``Furius, Aurelius, bound to Catullus''

468

(1)

``If man can find rich consolation...''

469

(1)

Horace Gregory

Virgil (70--19 B.C.)

470

(77)

The Aeneid

Robert Fitzgerald

[Aeneas Arrives in Carthage]

473

(10)

[The Fall of Troy]

483

(25)

[Aeneas Abandons Dido]

508

(21)

[Aeneas in the Underworld]

529

(7)

[The Shield of Aeneas]

536

(5)

[The Death of Turnus]

541

(6)

Ovid (43 B.C.--A.D. 17)

547

(32)

Metamorphoses

Rolfe Humphries

Book I

The Creation

548

(2)

The Four Ages

550

(2)

Jove's Intervention

552

(1)

The Story of Lycaon

553

(2)

The Flood

555

(1)

Deucalion and Pyrrha

556

(4)

Apollo and Daphne

560

(3)

Jove and Io

563

(5)

Book XV

The Teachings of Pythagoras

568

(11)

The New Testament (The King James Version)

579

(16)

Luke 2. [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]

580

(2)

Matthew 5--7. [The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount]

582

(5)

Luke 15. [The Teaching of Jesus: Parables]

587

(1)

Matthew 26. [The Betrayal of Jesus]

588

(3)

Matthew 27. [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus]

591

(3)

Matthew 28. [The Resurrection]

594

(1)

Petronius (died A.D. 65)

595

(21)

The Satyricon

J.P. Sullivan

Dinner with Trimalchio

596

(20)

St. Augustine (A.D. 354--430)

616

(36)

Confessions

F. J. Sheed

[Childhood]

617

(5)

[The Pear Tree]

622

(2)

[Student at Carthage]

624

(2)

[Worldly Ambitions]

626

(4)

[Conversion]

630

(3)

[Death of His Mother]

633

(16)

Masterpieces of the Middle Ages

Introduction

649

(3)

The Story of Deirdre

652

(10)

Jeffrey Gantz

The Song of the Seeress

662

(10)

Paul B. Taylor

W. H. Auden

Thorstein the Staff-Struck

672

(7)

Hermann Palsson

The Song of Roland

679

(58)

Frederick Goldin

Marie De France (Twelfth Century)

737

(15)

Eliduc

738

(14)

John Fowles

Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)

752

(206)

The Divine Comedy

John Ciardi

Inferno

766

(145)

From Purgatorio

911

(25)

From Paradiso

936

(22)

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313--1375)

958

(27)

The Decameron

Mark Musa

Peter E. Bondanella

The First Day

960

(14)

The Second Tale of the Fourth Day

974

(7)

The Ninth Tale of the Fifth Day

981

(4)

Francois Villon (1431--?)

985

(27)

Ballade

986

(1)

The Testament

987

(18)

Galway Kinnell

Masterpieces of the Renaissance

Introduction

1005

(7)

Francis Petrarch (1304--1374)

1012

(6)

Sonnet 3: It Was the Morning

1014

(1)

Sonnet 61: Blest Be the Day

1015

(1)

Joseph Auslander

Sonnet 62: Father in Heaven (Translated by Bernard Bergonzi)

1015

(1)

Sonnet 90: She Used To Let Her Golden Hair Fly Free

1016

(1)

Morris Bishop

Sonnet 292: The Eyes That Drew from Me

1016

(1)

Sonnet 300: Great Is My Envy of You

1017

(1)

Edwin Morgan

Sonnet 333: Go, Grieving Rimes of Mine

1017

(1)

Morris Bishop

Desiderius Erasmus (1466?--1536)

1018

(25)

From the Praise of Folly

1020

(23)

Leonard F. Dean

Baldesar Castiglione (1478--1529)

1043

(14)

The Book of the Courtier

Leonard E. Opdycke

[The Setting]

1045

(3)

[``Everything He May Do or Say Shall Be Stamped with Grace'']

1048

(9)

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469--1527)

1057

(17)

Letter to Francesco Vettori [``That Food Which Alone Is Mine'']

1060

(2)

The Prince

[Princely Virtues]

1062

(7)

[``Fortune Is a Woman'']

1069

(2)

[The Roman Dream]

1071

(3)

Allan H. Gilbert

Marguerite De Navarre (1492--1549)

1074

(22)

From The Heptameron

P. A. Chilton

Story 3

1079

(5)

Story 30

1084

(6)

Story 40

1090

(6)

Francois Rabelais (1495?--1553)

1096

(44)

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I

[Education of a Giant Humanist]

1099

(16)

[The Abbey of Theleme]

1115

(9)

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

[Pantagruel: Birth and Education]

1124

(3)

[Father's Letter from Home]

1127

(13)

Jacques Le Clercq

Michel De Montaigne (1533--1592)

1140

(36)

Essays

E. J. Trechmann

Of Cannibals

1146

(11)

Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions

1157

(6)

Apology for Raimond Sebond

1163

(11)

Of Repentance

1174

(2)

Miguel De Cervantes (1547--1616)

1176

(154)

Don Quixote, Part I

[``I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose'']

1181

(25)

[Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan]

1206

(17)

[Of Goatherds, Roaming Shepherdesses, and Unrequited Loves]

1223

(26)

[Fighting the Sheep]

1249

(5)

[``To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched'']

1254

(9)

[``Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady...'']

1263

(7)

Don Quixote, Part II

[``Put into a Book'']

1270

(7)

[A Victorious Duel]

1277

(31)

[``For I Well Know the Meaning of Valor'']

1308

(8)

[Last Duel]

1316

(5)

[Homecoming and Death]

1321

(9)

Samuel Putnam

Pedro Calderon De La Barca (1600--1681)

1330

(70)

Life Is a Dream

1333

(60)

Roy Campbell

Masterpieces of the Enlightenment

Introduction

1393

(7)

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere (1622--1673)

1400

(62)

Tartuffe

1402

(60)

Richard Wilbur

Jean Racine (1636--1699)

1462

(46)

Phaedra

1465

(43)

Kenneth Muir

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (1648--1695)

1508

(34)

Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz

1510

(32)

Margaret Peden

Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire (1694--1778)

1542

(86)

Candide, or Optimism

1545

(74)

Robert M. Adams

Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Varieties of Romanticism

Introduction

1619

(9)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712--1778)

1628

(12)

From Confessions

1629

(11)

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749--1832)

1640

(91)

Faust (Translated by Louis MacNeice)

1643

(88)

Prologue in Heaven

1643

(3)

The First Part of the Tragedy

1646

(85)

Francois Rene, Vicomte De Chateaubriand (1768--1848)

1731

(23)

Rene

1733

(21)

Irving Putter

Heinrich Heine (1797--1856)

1754

(9)

The Rose, the Lily, the Sun and the Dove

1756

(1)

P.G.L. Webb

A Spruce Is Standing Lonely

1756

(1)

Max Knight

Joseph Fabry

A Young Man Loves a Maiden

1756

(1)

Ernst Feise

Loreley

1757

(1)

Ernst Feise

My Beauty, My Love, You Have Bound Me

1757

(1)

Meno Spann

The Silesian Weavers

1758

(1)

Aaron Kramer

The Asra

1758

(1)

Erast Feise

Babylonian Sorrows

1759

(1)

Aaron Kramer

How Slowly Time, the Loathsome Snail

1760

(1)

Ernst Feise

The Migratory Rats

1761

(1)

Ernst Feise

At Parting

1762

(1)

Dwight Durling

Morphine

1763

(1)

Ernst Feise

Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837)

1763

(10)

The Broom

1765

(8)

Edwin Morgan

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799--1837)

1773

(24)

The Queen of Spades

Gillon R. Aitken

1775

(22)

Victor Hugo (1802--1885)

1797

(20)

Reverie

1799

(1)

Tomorrow, At Daybreak

1799

(1)

Memory of the Night of the Fourth

1800

(1)

Et nox facta est

1801

(7)

Sowing Season. Evening

1808

(1)

Mary Ann Caws

Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Naturalism, and the New Poetry

Introduction

1809

(8)

Gustave Flaubert (1821--1880)

1817

(28)

A Simple Heart

1819

(26)

Arthur McDowall

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821--1881)

1845

(94)

Notes from Underground

1852

(87)

Constance Garnett

Leo Tolstoy (1828--1910)

1939

(50)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

1943

(46)

Louise

Aylmer Maude)

Georg Buchner (1813--1837)

1989

(20)

Woyzeck

1993

(16)

Henry J. Schmidt

Henrik Ibsen (1828--1906)

2009

(70)

Hedda Gabler

2014

(65)

Michael Meyer

Anton Chekhov (1860--1904)

2079

(46)

The Cherry Orchard

2083

(42)

Avraham Yarmolinsky

Charles Baudelaire (1821--1867)

2125

(28)

The Flowers of Evil

2128

(15)

Correspondences

2128

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Her Hair

2129

(1)

Roy Campbell

You'd Take the Entire Universe to Bed with You

2130

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Carrion

2130

(2)

Allen Tate

The Balcony

2132

(1)

To One Who Is Too Gay

2132

(1)

Roy Campbell

Spleen

2133

(1)

Robert Lowell

Parisian Dream

2134

(2)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Voyage to Cythera

2136

(1)

Robert Lowell

The Voyage

2137

(6)

Roy Campbell

Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Varieties of Modernism

Introduction

2143

(10)

Luigi Pirandello (1867--1936)

2153

(48)

Six Characters in Search of an Author

2156

(45)

Edward Storer

Marcel Proust (1871--1922)

2201

(46)

Remembrance of Things Past

2206

(41)

Swann's Way: Overture

2206

(41)

C. K. Scott Moncrieff

Terence Kilmartin

Thomas Mann (1875--1955)

2247

(41)

Mario and the Magician

2252

(36)

H. T. Lowe-Porter

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875--1926)

2288

(10)

Archaic Torso of Apollo

2292

(1)

Archaischer Torso Apollos

2293

(1)

Duino Elegy I

2293

(3)

Duino Elegy IX

2296

(2)

Stephen Mitchell

Franz Kafka (1883--1924)

2298

(43)

The Metamorphosis

2301

(40)

Stanley Corngold

Anna Akhmatova (1889--1966)

2341

(12)

Requiem

2346

(7)

D. M. Thomas

Bertolt Brecht (1898--1956)

2353

(68)

Mother Courage and Her Children

2358

(63)

Ralph Manheim

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898--1936)

2421

(12)

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

2425

(7)

Stephen Spender

J. L. Gili

Cogida and Death

2425

(2)

The Spilled Blood

2427

(2)

The Laid Out Body

2429

(2)

Absent Soul

2431

(1)

Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

Alma ausente

2432

(1)

Albert Camus (1913--1960)

2433

(20)

The Guest

2437

(12)

Justin O'Brien

Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Explorations

Introduction

2449

(4)

Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986)

2453

(11)

The Garden of Forking Paths

2456

(8)

Donald A. Yates

Samuel Beckett (1906-- )

2464

(37)

Endgame

2469

(32)

Marguerite Duras (1914-- )

2501

(38)

Hiroshima Mon Amour

2505

(34)

Richard Seaver

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-- )

2539

(36)

Matryona's Home

2544

(31)

H. T. Willetts

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-- )

2575

(8)

The Secret Room

2579

(4)

Bruce Morrissette

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-- )

2583

(12)

Death Constant Beyond Love

2588

(7)

Gregory Rabassa

Wole Soyinka (1934-- )

2595

(56)

The Lion and the Jewel

2600

(51)

A Note on Translation

2651

(8)

Index

2659

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Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

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9780393954869

0393954862

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