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Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition : Literature of Western Culture Through the Renaissance

by: Lawall, Sarah N.; MacK, Maynard

Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition : Literature of Western Culture Through the Renaissance

by: Lawall, Sarah N.; MacK, Maynard

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Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/1999
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Preface to the Seventh Edition

xvii

Acknowledgments

xxiii

Phonetic Equivalents

xxv

Masterpieces of the Ancient World

Map: Greece and Western Asia Minor, Ca. Fifth Century B.C.

Introduction

(15)

Map: the Roman Empire, CA. 117

(5)

Timeline

(2)

Gilgamesh (Akkadian, ca. 2500--1500 B.C.)

(31)

N. K. Sandars

The Bible: The Old Testament (Hebrew, ca. 1000--300 B.C.)

(51)

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

(3)

Genesis 4 [The First Murder]

(1)

Genesis 6--9 [The Flood]

(3)

Genesis 11 [The Origin of Languages]

(1)

Genesis 22 [Abraham and Isaac]

(1)

Genesis 25, 27 [Jacob and Esau]

(2)

Genesis 37, 39--46 [The Story of Joseph]

(11)

From Job

(16)

Psalm 8

(1)

Psalm 19

(1)

Psalm 23

(1)

Psalm 104

(2)

Psalm 137

(1)

The Song of Songs

(4)

Jonah

(3)

Homer (eighth century B.C.)

(416)

The Iliad (Greek)

104

(105)

Book I [The Rage of Achilles]

104

(16)

From Book VI [Hector Returns to Troy]

120

(11)

From Book VIII [The Tide of Battle Turns]

131

(1)

Book IX [The Embassy to Achilles]

131

(19)

From Book XVI [Patroclus Fights and Dies]

150

(11)

Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]

161

(15)

Book XXII [The Death of Hector]

176

(13)

Book XXIV [Achilles and Priam]

189

(20)

Robert Fagles

The Odyssey (Greek)

209

(305)

Book I [A Goddess Intervenes]

209

(11)

Book II [A Hero's Son Awakens]

220

(10)

Book III [The Lord of the Western Approaches]

230

(12)

Book IV [The Red-Haired King and His Lady]

242

(20)

Book V [Sweet Nymph and Open Sea]

262

(11)

Book VI [The Princess at the River]

273

(8)

Book VII [Gardens and Firelight]

281

(8)

Book VIII [The Songs of the Harper]

289

(14)

Book IX [New Coasts and Poseidon's Son]

303

(13)

Book X [The Grace of the Witch]

316

(15)

Book XI [A Gathering of Shades]

331

(16)

Book XII [Sea Perils and Defeat]

347

(13)

Book XIII [One More Strange Island]

360

(12)

Book XIV [Hospitality in the Forest]

372

(13)

Book XV [How They Came to Ithaka]

385

(15)

Book XVI [Father and Son]

400

(13)

Book XVII [The Beggar at the Manor]

413

(18)

Book XVIII [Blows and a Queen's Beauty]

431

(11)

Book XIX [Recognitions and a Dream]

442

(16)

Book XX [Signs and a Vision]

458

(9)

Book XXI [The Test of the Bow]

467

(11)

Book XXII [Death in the Great Hall]

478

(13)

Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]

491

(9)

Book XXIV [Warriors, Farewell]

500

(14)

Robert Fitzgerald

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

514

(3)

Lyrics (Greek)

515

(2)

[Throned in Splendor, Deathless, O Aphrodite]

515

(1)

[Like the Very Gods in My Sight Is He]

516

(1)

[Some There Are Who Say That the Fairest Thing Seen]

516

(1)

Richmond Lattimore

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

517

(79)

The Oresteia (Greek)

521

(75)

Agamemnon

521

(45)

The Libation Bearers (summary)

566

(1)

The Eumenides

567

(29)

Robert Fagles

Sophocles (ca. 496--406 B.C.)

596

(44)

Oedipus the King (Greek)

599

(41)

Robert Fagles

Euripides (480--406 B.C.)

640

(32)

Medea (Greek)

642

(30)

Rex Warner

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

672

(54)

Lysistrata (Greek)

674

(52)

Douglass Parker

Plato (429--347 B.C.)

726

(20)

The Apology of Socrates (Greek)

727

(19)

Benjamin Jowett

Aristotle (384--322 B.C.)

746

(4)

From Poetics (Greek)

747

(3)

James Hutton

Plautus (254?--184? B.C.)

750

(58)

Pseudolus (Latin)

755

(53)

Peter L. Smith

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

808

(6)

Lyrics (Latin)

809

(5)

5 (``Lesbia, let us live only for loving'')

809

(1)

2 (``Sparrow, you darling pet of my beloved'')

809

(1)

51 (``To me that man seems like a god in heaven'')

809

(1)

86 (``Many find Quintia stunning'')

810

(1)

87 (``No other woman can truthfully say she was cherished'')

810

(1)

109 (``Darling, we'll both have equal shares in the sweet love you offer'')

810

(1)

83 (``Lesbia hurls abuse at me in front of her husband'')

811

(1)

70 (``My woman says there is no one whom she'd rather marry'')

811

(1)

72 (``You used to say that you wished to know only Catullus'')

811

(1)

85 (``I hate & love'')

811

(1)

75 (``To such a state have I been brought by your mischief'')

811

(1)

8 (``Wretched Catullus! You have to stop this nonsense'')

812

(1)

58 (``Lesbia, Caelius---yes, our darling'')

812

(1)

11 (``Aurelius & Furius, true comrades'')

812

(1)

76 (``If any pleasure can come to a man'')

813

(1)

Charles Martin

Virgil (70--19 B.C.)

814

(81)

The Aeneid (Latin)

817

(78)

From Book I

817

(1)

[Prologue]

817

(1)

[Aeneas Arrives in Carthage]

818

(7)

Book II [How They Took the City]

825

(22)

Book IV [The Passion of the Queen]

847

(21)

From Book VI [Aeneas in the Underworld]

868

(18)

From Book VIII [The Shield of Aeneas]

886

(4)

From Book XII [The Death of Turnus]

890

(5)

Robert Fitzgerald

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

895

(48)

Metamorphoses (Latin)

899

(44)

From Book I

899

(1)

[Prologue]

899

(1)

[Apollo and Daphne]

899

(3)

[Io and Jove]

902

(6)

From Book II

908

(1)

[Europa and Jove]

908

(2)

From Book V

910

(1)

[Ceres and Proserpina]

910

(12)

From Book IX

922

(1)

[Iphis and Ianthe]

922

(5)

From Book X

927

(1)

[Pygmalion]

927

(1)

[Myrrha and Cinyras]

928

(7)

[Venus and Adonis]

935

(8)

Allen Mandelbaum

Petronius (died A.D. 66)

943

(17)

The Satyricon (Latin)

944

(16)

[Dinner with Trimalchio]

944

(16)

J.P. Sullivan

The Bible: the New Testament (Greek, ca. first century)

960

(16)

Luke 2 [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]

962

(1)

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

963

(4)

Luke 15 [The Teaching of Jesus: Parables]

967

(2)

Matthew 13 [Why Jesus Teaches in Parables]

969

(1)

Matthew 26 [The Betrayal of Jesus]

970

(2)

Matthew 27 [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus]

972

(3)

Matthew 28 [The Resurrection]

975

(1)

Lucian (A.D. 120?--190?)

976

(28)

A True Story (Greek)

979

(25)

Lionel Casson

Augustine (A.D. 354--430)

1004

(31)

Confessions (Latin)

1005

(30)

From Book I [Childhood]

1005

(4)

From Book II [The Pear Tree]

1009

(3)

From Book III [Student at Carthage]

1012

(2)

From Book V [Augustine Leaves Carthage for Rome]

1014

(1)

From Book VI [Worldly Ambitions]

1015

(3)

From Book VIII [Conversion]

1018

(3)

From Book IX [Death of His Mother]

1021

(14)

F. J. Sheed

Masterpieces of the Middle Ages

Map: Europe, CA. 1150

Introduction

1035

(5)

Timeline

1038

(2)

The Koran (Arabic, 610--632)

1040

(17)

Sura 1. the Exordium

1042

(1)

Sura 5. the Table

1042

(9)

Sura 12. Joseph

1051

(6)

N. J. Dawood

Beowulf (Old English, ca. ninth century)

1057

(47)

E. Talbot Donaldson

From The Song of Roland (French, ca. 1100)

1104

(65)

Frederick Goldin

Marie De France (twelfth century)

1169

(9)

Lais (French)

1170

(8)

Lanval

1170

(6)

Laustic

1176

(2)

Glyn S. Burgess

Keith Busby

Thorstein the Staff-Struck (Old Norse, thirteenth century)

1178

(6)

Hermann Palsson

Medieval Lyrics: a Selection

1184

(44)

Elegy on Reichenau

1189

(2)

Walahfrid Strabo

A Hymn to Holy Women

1191

(2)

Notker Balbulus

The Ruin

1193

(1)

Anonymous

Song of Summer

1194

(1)

Anonymous

The Singing Lute

1194

(1)

Ibn Arfa` Ra'suh

Spring Song

1195

(1)

William IX

Summer

1196

(1)

Judah Halevi

In Battle

1197

(1)

Abu-l-Hassan ibn Al-Qabturnuh

Hildegard of Bingen • A Hymn to St. Maximinus

1197

(2)

The Archpoet • His Confession

1199

(3)

Love Song

1202

(1)

Jaufre Rudel

The Sacrifice of Isaac

1203

(3)

Rabbi Ephraim ben Jacob

Beatrice, countress of Dia • A Lover's Prize

1206

(1)

In Praise of War

1207

(1)

Bertran de Born

The Wound of Love

1208

(1)

Heinrich von Morungen

The Art of Love

1209

(1)

Arnaut Daniel

Dancing Girl

1210

(1)

Walther von der Vogelweide

A Letter from the Grave

1211

(1)

Meir Halevi Abulafia

Hedewijch of Brabant • The Cult of Love

1212

(1)

The Scorpions

1213

(2)

Alfonso X

Love and Nobility

1215

(1)

Guido Guinizzelli

An Encounter

1216

(1)

Guido Cavalcanti

Love and Poetry

1217

(1)

Dante Alighieri

Sonnet

1217

(1)

Calvary

1218

(1)

Anonymous

Alexander the Wild • Strawberry Picking

1218

(2)

The Fox

1220

(1)

Dafydd ap Gwilym

Aubade

1221

(1)

Anonymous

Alone in Martyrdom

1222

(1)

Christine de Pizan

Lament of the Virgin

1222

(3)

Anonymous

Balade

1225

(1)

Charles d'Orleans

From The Testament

1225

(3)

Francois Villon

Medieval Tales: a Selection

1228

(65)

From The Scholar's Guide

1232

(2)

Petrus Alfonsi

Four Fabliaux

1234

(23)

The Trial of Renard

1257

(33)

The Cursed Dancers of Colbeck

1290

(3)

Robert Mannyng

Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)

1293

(136)

The Divine Comedy (Italian)

1303

(126)

Inferno

1303

(106)

From Purgatorio

1409

(17)

From Paradiso

1426

(3)

Allen Mandelbaum

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313--1375)

1429

(29)

The Decameron (Italian)

1431

(27)

[The First Story of the First Day]

1431

(9)

[The Ninth Story of the Fourth Day]

1440

(3)

[The Eighth Story of the Fifth Day]

1443

(4)

[The Sixth Story of the Ninth Day]

1447

(3)

[The Tenth Story of the Tenth Day]

1450

(8)

G. H. McWilliam

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English, 1380?)

1458

(54)

Marie Borroff

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?--1400)

1512

(74)

The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)

1517

(69)

General Prologue

1517

(17)

The Miller's Prologue and Tale

1534

(1)

The Prologue

1534

(2)

The Tale

1536

(13)

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

1549

(1)

The Prologue

1549

(17)

The Tale

1566

(7)

The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

1573

(1)

The Prologue

1573

(3)

The Tale

1576

(10)

Theodore Morrison

The Thousand and One Nights (Arabic, fourteenth century)

1586

(24)

Prologue [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]

1588

(7)

[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]

1595

(2)

[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]

1597

(2)

[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]

1599

(11)

[The First Old Man's Tale]

1603

(3)

[The Second Old Man's Tale]

1606

(2)

[The Third Old Man's Tale]

1608

(2)

Husain Haddawy

Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405--1471)

1610

(18)

Morte Darthur (Middle English)

1611

(17)

[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere]

1611

(5)

[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]

1616

(3)

[The Death of Arthur]

1619

(6)

[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]

1625

(3)

Everyman (Middle English, 1495?)

1628

(25)

E. Talbot Donaldson

Masterpieces of the Renaissance

Map: Western Europe, CA. 1560

Introduction

1653

(11)

Timeline

1661

(3)

Francis Petrarch (1304--1374)

1664

(14)

Letter to Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro [the Ascent of Mount Ventoux] (Italian)

1668

(5)

James H. Robinson

Henry W. Rolfe

Sonnets (Italian)

1673

(5)

1 (``You who hear in scattered rhymes'')

1673

(1)

3 (``It was the day'')

1674

(1)

34 (``Apollo, if the sweet desire'')

1674

(1)

Robert M. Durling

61 (``Blest be the day'')

1675

(1)

Joseph Auslander

62 (``Father in heaven'')

1675

(1)

Bernard Bergonzi

78 (``When Simon received the high idea'')

1675

(1)

Robert M. Durling

90 (``She used to let her golden hair fly free'')

1676

(1)

Morris Bishop

126 (``Clear, fresh, sweet waters'')

1676

(1)

189 (``My ship laden with forgetfulness'')

1677

(1)

Robert M. Durling

333 (``Go, grieving rimes of mine'')

1678

(1)

Morris Bishop

Desiderius Erasmus (1466?--1536)

1678

(27)

The Praise of Folly (Italian)

1682

(23)

Clarence Miller

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469--1527)

1705

(17)

Letter to Francesco Vettori [``That Food Which alone Is Mine''] (Italian)

1708

(1)

The Prince (Italian)

1709

(13)

New Princedoms Gained with Other Men's Forces and through Fortune

1709

(3)

[Princely Virtues]

1712

(6)

[``Fortune Is a Woman'']

1718

(2)

[The Roman Dream]

1720

(2)

Allan H. Gilbert

Ludovico Ariosto (1474--1533)

1722

(87)

Orlando Furioso (Italian)

1726

(83)

Canto 1

1726

(9)

From Canto 6; Canto 7 [Ruggiero Visits the Isle of Alcina and Logistilla]

1735

(14)

From Cantos 8 and 9 [Angelica Travels Alone and Orlando Has a Dream]

1749

(10)

From Cantos 10 and 11 [Ruggiero Learns from Logistilla and Takes a Grand Tour]

1759

(9)

From Cantos 12 and 22 [Orlando Finds an Enchanted Castle and Ruggiero and Bradamant Unite]

1768

(4)

From Cantos 23 and 24 [Orlando's Great Madness]

1772

(5)

From Canto 25 [Fiordispina's Love for Bradamant]

1777

(6)

Canto 29; from Canto 30 [Isabel Outwits Rodomont and Angelica Encounters Orlando]

1783

(9)

From Cantos 34 and 35 [Astolfo's Voyage to the Moon]

1792

(7)

From Canto 39 [Orlando Regains His Wits]

1799

(3)

From Canto 41 [Ruggiero Is Baptized and Hears a Prophecy]

1802

(2)

From Canto 46 [Rodomont Interrupts the Wedding of Ruggiero and Bradamant]

1804

(5)

Guido Waldman

Baldesar Castiglione (1478--1529)

1809

(45)

The Book of the Courtier (Italian)

1812

(42)

[From The Dedication]

1812

(2)

From Book 1

1814

(36)

From Book 4

1850

(4)

Charles S. Singleton

Marguerite De Navarre (1492--1549)

1854

(27)

The Heptameron (French)

1857

(24)

From Prologue

1857

(4)

From Day One

1861

(1)

Story Three

1861

(4)

Story Four

1865

(5)

Story Five

1870

(3)

Story Six

1873

(1)

Story Seven

1874

(2)

Story Eight

1876

(5)

P. A. Chilton

Francois Rabelais (1495?--1553)

1881

(40)

Gargantua and Pantagruel (French)

1885

(36)

From Book I

1885

(1)

[Education of a Giant Humanist]

1885

(12)

[The Abbey of Theleme]

1897

(9)

From Book II

1906

(1)

[Pantagruel: Birth and Education]

1906

(2)

[Father's Letter from Home]

1908

(3)

[The World in Pantagruel's Mouth]

1911

(10)

Burton Raffel

Michel De Montaigne (1533--1592)

1921

(39)

Essays (French)

1925

(35)

To the Reader

1925

(1)

Of the Power of the Imagination

1925

(8)

Of Cannibals

1933

(9)

Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions

1942

(5)

Of Coaches

1947

(13)

Donald Frame

Miguel De Cervantes (1547--1616)

1960

(112)

Don Quixote (Spanish)

1964

(108)

From Part I

1964

(1)

Prologue

1964

(5)

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

1969

(20)

[Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan]

1989

(14)

[Fighting the Sheep]

2003

(4)

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

2007

(8)

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

2015

(5)

From Part II

2020

(1)

Prologue

2020

(3)

[``Put into a Book'']

2023

(6)

[A Victorious Duel]

2029

(25)

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

2054

(7)

[Last Duel]

2061

(3)

[Homecoming and Death]

2064

(8)

Samuel Putnam

Lope De Vega (1562--1635)

2072

(38)

Fuente Ovejuna (Spanish)

2076

(34)

Angel Flores

Muriel Kittel

William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

2110

(82)

Othello

2115

(77)

John Milton (1608--1674)

2192

(65)

Paradise Lost

2197

(60)

From Book I [``This Great Argument'']

2197

(1)

From Book 4 [Satan's Entry into Paradise; Adam and Eve in Their Bower]

2198

(12)

From Book 8 [Adam Describes His Own Creation and That of Eve; Having Repeated His Warning, the Angel Departs]

2210

(10)

Book 9 [Temptation and Fall]

2220

(26)

From Book 10 [Acceptance, Reconciliation, Hope]

2246

(9)

From Book 12 [``The World Was All Before Them'']

2255

(2)

A Note on Translation

2257

(6)

Permissions Acknowledgments

2263

(4)

Index

2267

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