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Literature of the Western World : The Ancient World Through the Renaissance

by: Brian Wilkie; James Hurt

Literature of the Western World : The Ancient World Through the Renaissance

by: Brian Wilkie; James Hurt

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Edition: 4th
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Copyright: 04/01/1997
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
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Summary

A total rundown of the Western World: The Ancient World through the Renaissance.

Preface

xiii

The Ancient World

(1162)

Introduction

(15)

GILGAMESH (C.2000 B.C.)

(51)

GILGAMESH

(48)

David Ferry

Tablet I

(5)

Tablets II and III

(6)

Tablets IV and V

(5)

Tablet VI

(4)

Tablet VII

(4)

Tablet VIII

(3)

Tablet IX

(3)

Tablet X

(7)

Tablet XI

(11)

THE OLD TESTAMENT (HEBREW BIBLE) (Tenth Century B.C. to Second Century B.C.)

(62)

THE OLD TESTAMENT--King James Version

(59)

FROM Genesis

(23)

The Creation of the World

(1)

The Fall

(3)

Cain and Abel

(1)

The Flood

(3)

The Tower of Babel

(1)

The Story of Abraham and Isaac

(2)

The Story of Jacob

(12)

FROM Job

(30)

FROM Psalms

123

(6)

Psalm 8

123

(1)

Psalm 23

123

(1)

Psalm 91

124

(1)

Psalm 103

125

(1)

Psalm 114

126

(1)

Psalm 130

126

(1)

Psalm 137

127

(1)

Psalm 139

128

(1)

HOMER (Eighth Century B.C.)

129

(468)

FROM The Iliad

133

(142)

Robert Fitzgerald

Book One: Quarrel, Oath, and Promise

134

(19)

FROM Book Six: Interludes in Field and City

153

(9)

Book Nine: A Visit of Emissaries

162

(20)

FROM Book Twelve: The Rampart Breached

182

(2)

Book Sixteen: A Ship Fired, a Tide Turned

184

(23)

FROM Book Seventeen: Contending for a Soldier Fallen

207

(1)

Book Eighteen: The Immortal Shield

208

(17)

Book Nineteen: The Avenger Fasts and Arms

225

(2)

Book Twenty-Two: Desolation Before Troy

237

(14)

Book Twenty-Four: A Grace Given in Sorrow

251

(24)

The Odyssey

275

(322)

Robert Fitzgerald

Book One: A Goddess Intervenes

275

(12)

Book Two: A Hero's Son Awakens

287

(11)

Book Three: The Lord of the Western Approaches

298

(13)

Book Four: The Red-Haired King and His Lady

311

(21)

Book Five: Sweet Nymph and Open Sea

332

(12)

Book Six: The Princess at the River

344

(8)

Book Seven: Gardens and Firelight

352

(8)

Book Eight: The Songs of the Harper

360

(15)

Book Nine: New Coasts and Poseidon's Son

375

(14)

Book Ten: The Grace of the Witch

389

(15)

Book Eleven: A Gathering of Shades

404

(18)

Book Twelve: Sea Perils and Defeat

422

(13)

Book Thirteen: One More Strange Island

435

(13)

Book Fourteen: Hospitality in the Forest

448

(14)

Book Fifteen: How They Came to Ithaka

462

(15)

Book Sixteen: Father and Son

477

(14)

Book Seventeen: The Beggar at the Manor

491

(18)

Book Eighteen: Blows and a Queen's Beauty

509

(12)

Book Nineteen: Recognitions and a Dream

521

(16)

Book Twenty: Signs and a Vision

537

(11)

Book Twenty-One: The Test of the Bow

548

(11)

Book Twenty-Two: Death in the Great Hall

559

(13)

Book Twenty-Three: The Trunk of the Olive Tree

572

(10)

Book Twenty-Four: Warriors, Farewell

582

(15)

SAPPHO (Seventh Century B.C. to Sixth Century B.C.)

597

(9)

Poems

599

(7)

Mary Barnard

30: We drink your health

599

(1)

34: Lament for a maidenhead

600

(1)

37: You know the place

600

(1)

38: Prayer to my lady of Paphos

601

(1)

39: He is more than a hero

602

(1)

40: Yes, Atthis, you may be sure

602

(1)

41: To an army wife, in Sardis

603

(1)

42: I have had not one word from her

604

(1)

43: It was you, Atthis, who said

604

(1)

97: I have often asked you

605

(1)

AESCHYLUS (C.525-456 B.C.)

606

(129)

The Oresteia

609

(126)

Robert Fagles

Agamemnon

610

(53)

The Libation Bearers

663

(36)

The Eumenides

699

(36)

SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.)

735

(98)

Oedipus the King

737

(48)

Stephen Berg

Diskin Clay

Antigone

785

(48)

Robert Fagles

EURIPIDES (C.480-406 B.C.)

833

(36)

Medea

836

(33)

Philip Vellacott

ARISTOPHANES (C.450-c.386 B.C.)

869

(55)

Lysistrata

872

(52)

Dudley Fitts

PLATO (C.427-C.348 B.C.)

924

(38)

Ion

927

(11)

Benjamin Jowett

FROM The Republic: The Parable of the Cave

938

(4)

Benjamin Jowett

The Apology

942

(20)

Benjamin Jowett

ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

962

(18)

FROM Poetics

965

(15)

Samuel Henry Butcher

Louise Ropes Loomis

CATULLUS (C.84-C.54 B.C.)

980

(11)

Poems

982

(9)

Horace Gregory

1: Who shall receive my new-born book

982

(1)

51: He is changed to a god

983

(1)

3: Dress now in sorrow

983

(1)

5: Come, Lesbia, let us live and love

984

(1)

85: I hate and love

984

(1)

109: My life, my love, you say our love will last forever

985

(1)

39: Egnatius has white teeth

985

(1)

8: Poor damned Catullus

986

(1)

76: If man can find rich consolation

986

(1)

11: Furius, Aurelius, bound to Catullus

987

(1)

62: Twilight and star we hope to see arise

988

(2)

101: Dear brother, I have come these many miles

990

(1)

VIRGIL (70-19 B.C.)

991

(112)

FROM The Aeneid

997

(106)

Rolfe Humphries

Book I: The Landing near Carthage

997

(18)

Book II: The Fall of Troy

1015

(18)

Book III: The Wanderings of Aeneas

1033

(16)

Book IV: Aeneas and Dido

1049

(16)

FROM Book V: The Funeral Games for Anchises

1065

(1)

Book VI: The Lower World

1066

(24)

FROM Book VIII: Aeneas at the Site of Rome

1090

(3)

FROM Book XII: The Final Combat

1093

(10)

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

1103

(51)

FROM Amores

1107

(19)

Peter Green

FROM Book 1

1107

(1)

FROM Book 2

1118

(3)

FROM Book 3

1121

(5)

FROM Heroides

1126

(17)

Daryl Hine

Paris to Helen (XVI)

1127

(10)

Helen to Paris (XVII)

1137

(6)

Metamorphoses

1143

(11)

Rolfe Humphries

FROM Book I:

1143

(11)

The Creation

1143

(2)

The Four Ages

1145

(2)

Jove's Intervention

1147

(1)

The Story of Lycaon

1148

(1)

The Flood

1149

(2)

Deucalion and Pyrrha

1151

(3)

THE NEW TESTAMENT (First and Second Centuries A.D.)

1154

(9)

THE NEW TESTAMENT--King James Version

1157

(6)

FROM The Gospel According to Saint Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount

1157

(6)

The Middle Ages

1163

(584)

Introduction

1163

(10)

THE KORAN (QUR'AN) (Seventh Century)

1173

(13)

FROM THE KORAN

1176

(10)

Arthur J. Arberry

The Opening

1176

(1)

FROM The Cow

1176

(1)

Light

1177

(4)

Ya Sin

1181

(4)

Sincere Religion

1185

(1)

BEOWULF (Eighth Century?)

1186

(72)

BEOWULF

1191

(67)

Kevin Crossley-Holland

THE SONG OF ROLAND (C.1100 A.D.)

1258

(55)

FROM The Song of Roland

1262

(51)

Patricia Terry

ANDREAS CAPELLANUS (Late Twelfth Century)

1313

(31)

FROM The Art of Courtly Love

1316

(28)

John Jay Parry

FROM Book One: Introduction to the Treatise on Love

1316

(1)

Chapter I: What Love Is

1316

(1)

Chapter IV: What the Effect of Love Is

1317

(1)

Chapter VI: In What Manner Love May Be Acquired, and in How Many Ways

1318

(1)

Fifth Dialogue: A Nobleman Speaks with a Noblewoman

1318

(10)

Seventh Dialogue: A Man of the Higher Nobility Speaks with a Woman of the Simple Nobility

1328

(10)

FROM Book Two: How Love May Be Retained

1338

(1)

Chapter VIII: The Rules of Love

1338

(6)

MARIE DE FRANCE (Late Twelfth Century)

1344

(20)

Bisclavret (The Werewolf)

1346

(7)

Robert Hanning

Joan Ferrante

Yonec

1353

(11)

Robert Hanning

Joan Ferrante

ANSELM AND AQUINAS: THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (Eleventh and Thirteenth Centuries)

1364

(3)

SAINT ANSELM (1033-1109)

1367

(5)

FROM Proglogium

1367

(5)

S. N. Deane

SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1226-1274)

1372

(5)

FROM Summa Theologica

1372

(5)

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)

1377

(174)

The Divine Comedy

1384

(167)

H. R. Huse

Inferno

1384

(140)

FROM Purgatory

1524

(18)

FROM Paradise

1542

(9)

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (Late Fourteenth Century)

1551

(57)

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

1553

(55)

Theodore Howard Banks, Jr.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400)

1608

(92)

FROM The Canterbury Tales

1612

(88)

Theodore Morrison

Prologue

1612

(18)

Prologue to the Miller's Tale

1630

(2)

The Miller's Tale

1632

(14)

Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale

1646

(18)

The Wife of Bath's Tale

1664

(8)

Prologue to the Pardoner's Tale

1672

(3)

The Pardoner's Tale

1675

(10)

The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale

1685

(1)

The Nun's Priest's Tale

1686

(14)

CHRISTINE DE PIZAN (1364-1430?)

1700

(21)

FROM The Book of the City of Ladies

1703

(18)

Earl Jeffrey Richards

EVERYMAN (Late Fifteenth Century)

1721

(26)

EVERYMAN

1724

(23)

The Renaissance

1747

(480)

Introduction

1747

(16)

FRANCIS PETRARCH (1304-1374)

1763

(11)

Rhymes

1766

(8)

Anthony Mortimer

I: All you that hear in scattered rhymes

1766

(1)

III: It was that very day on which the sun

1767

(1)

XC: Upon the breeze the spread her golden hair

1767

(1)

CXXVI: Waters fresh and sweet and clear

1768

(2)

CXXIX: From thought to thought, from mountainside to mountain

1770

(2)

CXXXIV: I find no peace, and have no arms for war

1772

(1)

CCLXV: Fierce heart and bitter, and most cruel will

1772

(1)

CCXCII: The eyes I spoke of once in words that burn

1772

(1)

CCCLXV: I keep lamenting over days gone by

1773

(1)

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO (1313-1375)

1774

(40)

The Decameron

1776

(38)

Richard Aldington

The First Day

1776

(10)

Third Day, Tenth Tale

1786

(6)

Fourth Day, Second Tale

1792

(6)

Fifth Day, Tenth Tale

1798

(6)

Tenth Day, Tenth Tale

1804

(8)

FROM Conclusion

1812

(2)

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527)

1814

(16)

FROM The Prince

1816

(14)

Luigi Ricci

E. R. P. Vincent

MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE (1492-1549)

1830

(28)

The Heptameron

1835

(23)

P. A. Chilton

Story Eight

1836

(4)

Story Eighteen

1840

(4)

Story Nineteen

1844

(9)

Story Thirty-Six

1853

(3)

Story Fifty-Five

1856

(2)

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592)

1858

(43)

Essays

1862

(39)

Donald M. Frame

Of Cannibals

1862

(10)

FROM Apology for Raymond Sebond

1872

(29)

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616)

1901

(113)

Don Quixote

1904

(110)

Walter Starkie

FROM Part I

1904

(40)

FROM Part II

1944

(70)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)

2014

(74)

Henry IV, Part I

2019

(74)

JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)

2093

(12)

The Good-Morrow

2095

(1)

Song: Go, and catch a falling star

2096

(1)

The Canonization

2097

(1)

The Funeral

2098

(1)

The Flea

2099

(1)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

2100

(1)

Love's Diet

2101

(1)

Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed

2102

(1)

Holy Sonnets:

2103

(1)

X: Death be not proud

2103

(1)

XIV: Batter my heart

2104

(1)

A Hymn to God the Father

2104

(1)

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)

2105

(104)

Paradise Lost

2110

(1)

FROM Book I

2111

(11)

FROM Book II

2122

(14)

FROM Book III

2136

(7)

FROM Book IV

2143

(19)

Book IX

2162

(29)

FROM Book X

2191

(9)

FROM Book XII

2200

(9)

Chronology

2209

(14)

Acknowledgments

2223

(4)

Index

2227

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