The Longman Anthology of World Literature Volume I (A, B, C)
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VOLUME A: THE ANCIENT WORLD
CROSS-CURRENTS: CREATION MYTHS AND SOCIAL REALITIES
The Babylonian Theogony
A Memphite Theology, tr. Miriam Lichtheim
The Pyramid Texts of Unas (Egypt, c. 2300 B.C.E.), tr. Miriam Lichtheim
From Utterance 217: The King Joins the Sun-god
Utterances 273-274: The King Feeds on the Gods
Utterance 309: The King Serves the Sun-god
The Rig Veda, tr. Le May
Hymn of Creation
Hymn of Man
Hymn to the Dawn
Resonance
From Agganna Sutta (Buddhist counter-creation)
The Great Hymn to the Aten (Egypt, 14th century B.C.E.), tr. Miriam Lichtheim
Enuma Elish, The Babylonian Creation Epic (c. 1200 B.C.E.), tr. Stephanie Dalley
Enuma Elish
Birth of the Gods. Conflict Begins
Who will face Tiamat?
The Gods Commission Marduk
Marduk and Tiamat at War
Victory Celebration. Founding of Babylon
Creation of Humanity
Hesiod, from Theogony
Genesis (Israel, c. 900 B.C.E.), tr. Robert Alter
The Ancient Near East
Poetry of Love and Devotion
Last night, as I, the queen, was shining bright (Sumer, c. late 3rd millennium B.C.E.), tr. J.B. Pritchard
Egyptian Love Songs (2nd millennium B.C.E.), tr. W. K. Simpson
The Song of Songs, Jerusalem Bible tr
The Epic of Gilgamesh, tr. Maureen Kovacs
Perspectives: Death and Immortality
The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld (Babylon, 2nd millennium), tr. Stephanie Dalley
From The Book of the Dead (Egypt, 2nd millennium) tr. Miriam Lichtheim
Letters to the Dead, tr. Gardiner and Sethe
Kabti-Ilani-Marduk, from The Erra Epic (Babylon, c. 8th century B.C.E.), tr. David Damrosch
The Book of Job (Israel, c. 900 B.C.E.), Revised Standard Version
Resonances
From The Babylonian Theodicy
Psalm 22 (“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”)
Psalm 102 (“Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come unto thee!”)
Perspectives: Strangers in a Strange Land
The Story of Sinuhe (Egypt, c. 1925 B.C.E.), tr. Miriam Lichtheim
The Two Brothers (Egypt, c. 1200 B.C.E.), tr. Miriam Lichtheim
The Joseph Story (Israel, 1st millennium B.C.E.), New International Version
Genesis 35-50: The Joseph Story
The Book of Ruth (Israel, c. 6th century B.C.E.), New International Version
Classical Greece
Homer
From The Iliad, tr. Robert Fagles
Resonances: Oral Composition
Filip Visnjic: The Death of Kraljevic Marko
From Sirat Bani Hilal
Homer
The Odyssey, tr. Robert Fagles
Resonances
Franz Kafka: The Silence of the Sirens
George Seferis: Upon a Foreign Verse
Derek Walcott: From Omeros
Archaic Lyric Poetry
Arkhilokhos, tr. M. L. West
Encounter in a Meadow
The Fox and the Hedgehog
Elegies
Sappho, tr. M. L. West
Rich-throned immortal Aphrodite
Come, goddess
Some think a fleet
He looks to me to be in heaven
Love shakes my heart
Honestly, I wish I were dead
she worshipped you
Like a sweet-apple
The doorman's feet
Resonances
H.D.: from The Wise Sappho
Alejandra Pizarnik: Poem, Lovers, Recognition, Meaning of His Absence, Dawn, Falling
Alkaios, tr. M. L. West
And fluttered Argive Helen's heart
They tell us that Priam and his sons
The high hall
I can't make out the lie of the winds
Alkman, tr. M. L. West
Hagesichora Ode
Pindar, tr. Frank J. Nisetich
First Olympian Ode
Resonances
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn
Rainer Maria Rilke: Archaic Torso of Apollo
Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.E.)
Agamemnon, tr. Richmond Lattimore
Resonances
W. B. Yeats: Leda and the Swan
Sophocles (496-406 B.C.E.)
Oedipus the King, tr. David Grene
Resonance
Aristotle: from Poetics
Perspectives: Tyranny and Democracy
Solon (c. 640-558 B.C.E.) tr. M. L. West
Our state will never fail
The commons I have granted
Those aims for which I called the public meeting
Herodotus (484-425 B.C.E.), tr. Aubrey de Sélincourt
From The History
Thucydides
From The Peloponnesian War (c. 410 B.C.E.), tr. Steven Lattimore
Plato
From The Republic, tr. Desmond Lee
The Apology, tr. Hugh Tredennick or Jowett
Euripides (c. 480-405 B.C.E.)
The Medea tr. Rex Warner
Resonances
Herodotus: from The History
Friedrich Nietzsche: from The Birth of Tragedy
Aristophanes (445-c.380 B.C.E.)
Lysistrata, tr. J. Henderson
Resonance
Plato: from The Symposium
Early South Asia
The Mahabharata of Vyasa (Sanskrit, last centuries B.C.E.-early centuries B.C.E)
Book 2: The Friendly Dice Game, tr. Daniel H. H. Ingalls
Book 5: The Temptation of Karna, tr. J.A.B. van Buitenen
Book 6: from The Bhagavad Gita, tr. Barbara Stoler Miller
Resonances
Kautilya: from The Treatise on Power
Asoka: from Inscriptions
The Ramayana of Valmiki (Sanskrit, last centuries B.C.E.)
Book 2: The exile of Rama, tr. Sheldon Pollock
Book 3: The abduction of Sita, tr. Sheldon Pollock
Book 6: The Death of Ravana and The Fire Ordeal of Sita, tr. Barend A. van Nooten, Robert Goldman, & Sally Sutherland Goldman
Resonances
From The Bhilonu Bharat of the Dungari Bhil people
From A Comic Book Ramayana
From A Public Address, Varanasi
Daya Pawar, et al.: We Are Not Your Monkeys
Perspectives: What is “Literature”?
The Ramayana of Valmiki
The Invention of Poetry, tr. Robert P. Goldman
RajasHekhara
From Inquiry into Literature (Sanskrit, 10th century), tr. Sheldon Pollock
Anandavardhana
From Light on Suggestion (Sanskrit, 9th century), tr. Daniel H. H. Ingalls et al
Abhinavagupta
From The Eye for the “Light on Suggestion” (Sanskrit, 10th century), tr. Daniel H. H. Ingalls et al
Love in a Courtly Language
The Tamil Anthologies, (Tamil, 2nd-3rd century), tr. A. K. Ramanujan
The Seven Hundred Songs of Hala (Prakrit, 2nd-3rd century), tr. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
The Hundred Poems of Amaru (Sanskrit, 7th century), tr. Daniel H. H. Ingalls
Vatsyayana (Sanskrit, 3rd century), tr. Sir Richard Burton (revised)
Kamasutra: Kinds of Union According to Dimensions, Force of Desire, and Time.On the Different Kinds of Passion
Kalidasa: Shakuntala and the Ring of Recollection (Sanskrit, 4th-5th century), tr. Barbara Stoler Miller
Resonances
From The Mahabarata: The Story of Shakuntala
Kuntaka: from The Life-force of Literary Beauty
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: On Shakuntala
Rabindranath Tagore: from Shakuntala: Its Inner Meaning
Perspectives: Asceticism, Wisdom, and the Middle Way
The Lore of the Dwarf Incarnation (Sanskrit, early centuries B.C.E.), tr. Wendy O'Flaherty
The Ascetic Who Turned His Blood into Vegetable Sap
The Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad (Sanskrit, 7th-6th century B.C.E.), tr. Patrick Olivelle
The Nature of Self
The Chandogya Upanishad (Sanskrit, 6th-5th century B.C.E.), tr. Patrick Olivelle
The Essence of Reality
Ashvaghosha (Sanskrit, 100 B.C.E.), tr. E.H. Johnston, revised
From The Life of the Buddha
Discourses of the Buddha (Pali, 5th century B.C.E.)
The Fire Sermon, tr. Henry Clarke Warren
Dhaniya the Herdsman, tr. H. Saddhatissa
The Unicorn's Horn, tr. H. Saddhatissa
China: The Classical Tradition
The Book of Songs (compiled by 6th c. B.C.E.), tr. Arthur Waley
The Ospreys Cry
Locusts
Plop Fall the Plums
In the Wilds is a Dead Doe
Resonances
In the wilds there is a dead deer, tr. Bernard Karlgren
Lies a dead deer on younder plain, tr. Ezra Pound
Resonances
In the open grounds there is the creeping grass, tr. Bernhard Karlgren
Mid the bind-grass on the plain, tr. Ezra Pound
Resonances
Heaven protects and secures you, tr. Bernhard Karlgren
Heaven conserve thy course in quietness, tr. Ezra Pound
Resonances
Confucius: from The Analects
Wei Hong: from Preface to The Book of Songs
Tang Xianzu: from The Peony Pavilion
Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.)
The Analects (6th c. B.C.E.), tr. S. Leys
Perspectives: Daoism
FromDao De Jing, tr. D. C. Lau
FromZhuangzi, tr. Burton Watson
From The Book of Liezi
Xi Kang, from Letter to Shan Tao, tr. J. Hightower
Liu Yiqing, from A New Account of the Tales of the World, tr. B. Mather
Sima Qian, from The Grand Historian's Records
Romeand the Roman Empire
Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.), Aeneid, tr. Robert Fitzgerald
From Book 1: A fateful haven
From Book 2: How they took the city
Book 4: The passion of the queen
From Book 6: The world below
From Book 8: Evander
From Book 12: The Death of Turnus
Resonances
Horace: from Odes: 1.24, Why should our grief for a man so loved
Macrobius: from Saturnalia
Ovid (43 B.C.E.-18 B.C.E.)
Metamorphoses, tr. A. D. Melville
The Creation, The Ages of Mankind, The Flood
Phaethon
Tiresias
Narcissus and Echo
Arachne
Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus' Song: Ganymede, Hyacinth, Pygmalion
The Death of Orpheus
The Minotaur
Daedalus and Icarus
Pythagoras
Perspectives: Roman Culture and the Beginnings of Christianity
Catullus, tr. Charles Martin (84-54 B.C.E.)
3 (“Cry out lamenting, Venuses and Cupids”)
5 (“Lesbia, let us live only for loving”)
16 (“Pedicabo et irrumabo”)
13 (“You will dine well with me, my dear Fabullus”)
51 (“To me that man seems like a god in heaven”)
76 (“If any pleasure can come to a man through recalling”)
85 (“I hate and love”)
107 (“If ever something which someone with no expectation”)
Resonances
The Priapea
Horace (65-8 B.C.E.)
Satire 1.8 (“Once I was wood from a worthless old fig tree”), tr. Richard W. Hopper
Satire 1.5 (“Leaving the big city behind I found lodgings at Aricia”), tr. Niall Rudd
Ode 1.25 (“The young bloods are not so eager now”), tr. David West
Ode 1.9 (“Soracte standing white and deep”), tr. David West
Ode 2.13 (“Not only did he plant you on an unholy day”), tr. David West
Ode 2.14 (“Ah how quickly, Postumus, Postumus”), tr. David West
Petronius (d. 65 CE)
From Satyricon, tr. J.P. Sullivan
Paul (c. 10-67 or 68 CE)
From Epistle to the Romans (56 CE)
Luke (fl. 80-110 CE)
From The Gospel According to Luke
From The Acts of the Apostles
Roman Responses to Christianity
Suetonius (c. 70 - after 122 CE): from The Twelve Caesars
Tacitus (c. 56 - after 118 CE): from The Annals of Imperial Rome
Pliny the Younger (c. 60 - c. 112 CE): Letter to Emperor Trajan
Trajan (Emperor of Rome, 98-117 CE): Response to Pliny
Juvenal (fl. 98-128 ce)
From The Third Satire, tr. Peter Green
Apuleius (fl. c. 155 CE)
From The Golden Ass, tr. Arthur Hanson
Augustine (354-430 ce), Confessions, tr. Henry Chadwick
Invocation and infancy
Grammar school
The Pear-tree
Student at Carthage
Arrival in Rome
Ponticianus
Take it and read
Monica's death
Time, eternity, and memory
Resonances
Michel de Montaigne: from Essays
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: from Confessions
The City of God, tr. Henry Bettenson
Resonance
Boethius: from Consolation of Philosophy
VOLUME B: THE MEDIEVAL ERA
Cross-Currents: Contact, Conflict, and Conversion
I-Ching (635-713)
From Chinese Monks in India, tr. Latika Lahiri
Heavenly Tales (Sanskrit, early centuries ce), tr. Andrew Rotman
The Story of One who Relishes the Dharma
Tibetan Death Rituals and Dream Visions, tr. Matthew Kapstein
The Way of the Dead (9th century)
The Dream Vision of Mar-pa (1012-1097).
From The Platform of Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (China, 780), tr. Philip Yampolsky
The Dharma in Korea.
Master Wolmyong: Requiem
Priest Yongjae: Meeting with Bandits
Great Master Kyunyo: from Eleven Devotional Poems
From The Voyage of St. Brendan, tr. J.F. Webb
Snorri Sturluson (d. 1241)
From The Prose Edda
From Njal's Saga (c. 1250)
Marco Polo (d. 1324)
From The Book of Wonders (Italian, end of 13th c.)
Resonances
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
Italo Calvino: from Invisible Cities
Ibn BatTuta (d. 1378)
From The Travels of Ibn Battuta
Medieval China
Women in Early China
Liu Xiang (78-8 B.C.E.), Biographies of Admirable Women, tr. Nancy Gibbs
Liu Xiang (78-8 B.C.E.), The Mother of Mencius
Ban Zhao (45-120), Lessons for Women, tr. Nancy Lee Swann
Yuan Cai (12th century), Precepts for Social Life, tr. Patricia Ebrey
Voices of Women
Here's a Willow Bough: Songs of the Thirteen Months (3rd-4th century), tr. Joseph R. Allen
Midnight Songs (late 4th century), tr. Jeanne Larsen
A Peacock Southeast Flew (5th century), tr. Anne Birrell
Ballad of Mulan (5th-6th century), tr. Arhur Waley or Stephen Owen
Yuan Zhen (779-831)
The Story of Yingying , tr. Arthur Waley
Resonance
Wang Shifu: from The Story of the Western Wing
Tao Qian (365-427), tr. James R. Hightower
Biography of the Gentleman of the Five Willows, tr. A.R. Davis
Peach Blossom Spring
Resonances
Wang Wei (701-761): Song of Peach Blossom Spring
Han Shan (Cold Mountain) (7th century)
Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, tr. Gary Snyder
Spring water in the green creek is clear, tr. Gary Snyder
When men see Han-shan, tr. Gary Snyder
I climb the road to Cold Mountain, tr. Burton Watson
Wonderful, this road to Cold Mountain, tr. Burton Watson
Cold cliffs, more beautiful the deeper you enter, tr. Burton Watson
Men these days search for a way through the clouds, tr. Burton Watson
Today I sat before the cliff, tr. Burton Watson
Have I a body or have I none, tr. Burton Watson
My mind is like the autumn moon, tr. Burton Watson
Do you have the poems of Han-shan in your house?, tr. Burton Watson
Resonance
Lu-qui Yin: from Preface to the poems of Han-shan
Poetry of the Tang Dynasty
Wang Wei (701-761), tr. Pauline Yu
The Wang River Collection
Bird Call Valley
Farewell
Farewell to Yuan the Second on His Mission to Anxi
Visiting the Temple of Gathered Fragrance
Zhongnan Retreat
In Response to Vice-Magistrate Zhang
Li Bo (701-62)
Drinking Alone by Moonlight, 1-3, tr. Arthur Waley or Vikram Seth
Fighting South of the Ramparts, tr. Arthur Waley
The Road to Shu is Hard, tr. Vikram Seth
Bring in the Wine, tr. Vikram Seth
The Jewel Stairs' Grievance, tr. Ezra Pound
The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter, tr. Ezra Pound
Listening to a Monk from Shu Playing the Lute, tr. Vikram Seth
Farewell to a Friend, tr. Pauline Yu
In the Quiet Night, tr. Vikram Seth
Sitting Alone by Jingting Mountain, tr. Stephen Owen
Question and Answer in the Mountains, tr. Vikram Seth
Du Fu (712-770)
The Army Wagons: A Ballad, tr. Stephen Owen
Moonlit Night, tr. Vikram Seth
Spring Prospect, tr. Pauline Yu
Traveling at Night, tr. Pauline Yu
Autumn Meditations, 8 Poems, tr. A.C. Graham
Between Yangzi and Han, tr. A.C. Graham
Bo Juyi (772-846)
Song of Lasting Pain, tr. Stephen Owen
Perspectives: What is “Literature”?
Cao Pi (182-226), from A Discourse on Literature, tr. Stephen Owen
Lu Ji (261-302), from Rhymeprose on Literature, tr. Achilles Fang
Liu Xie, from The Literary Mind
Wang Changling (698-757), from A Discussion of Literature and Meaning, tr. Richard Bodman
Sikong Tu (837-908), from The Twenty-four Classes of Poetry
Song Lyrics
Li Yu (937-978), To the tune Die lian hua (“A leisurely evening in garden and meadow”), tr. Daniel Bryant
Li Yu, To the tune Qingping yue (“Since our parting spring is half-gone”), tr. Daniel Bryant
Li Yu, To the tune Wang Jiangnan (“So much heart-ache”), tr. Daniel Bryant
Li Yu, To the tune Yu Meiren (“Spring flowers, the moon in autumn, when will these cease to be?”) tr. Daniel Bryant
Li Qingzhao (1081-1149), To the tune Yi jian mei (“The scent of red lotus fades”), tr. Eugene Eoyang
Li Qingzhao, To the tune Ru meng ling (“I'll always remember that day at dusk”), tr. Eugene Eoyang
Li Qingzhao, To the tune Wuling chun (“The wind has ceased”), tr. Pauline Yu
Li Qingzhao, To the tune Sheng sheng man (“Seeking, seeking, searching, searching”), tr. Pauline Yu
Japan
Kojiki, Record of Ancient Matters (712), adapted from tr. Donald Philippi
At the Beginning
Solidifying the Land
Visit to Land of Yomi
Susanoo and Amaterasu
Susanoo Slays the Serpent
Luck of the Sea and Luck of the Mountain
The Manôshû, Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves (759)
Emperor Yûryaku (reigned 456-479), Your basket, with your pretty basket, tr. Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkôkai
Emperor Jômei (593-641), Climbing Kagu Mountain and looking upon the land, tr. Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkôkai
Princess Nukata (b.ca. 638-active until 690's), On spring and autumn, tr.Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkôkai
Kakinomoro No Hitomaro (active 689-700), tr. Edwin Cranston
Kakinomoro No Hitomaro, On passing the ruined capital of ômi, tr. Edwin Cranston
Kakinomoro No Hitomaro, On leaving his wife as he set out from Iwami, tr. Edwin Cranston
Kakinomoro No Hitomaro, After the death of his wife, tr. Edwin Cranston
Yamabe No Akahito (active 724-736), On Mount Fuji, tr. Edwin Cranston
Yamanoue No Okura (660-ca.733), A dialogue on poverty, tr. Ian Levy
Murasaki Shikibu (d.1019)
From The Tale of Genji (1008), tr. Edward Seidensticker
Resonances
Murasaki Shikibu: from Diary
Daughter of Sugawara No Takasue: from Sarashina Diary
Riverside Counselor's Stories: The Woman Who Preferred Insects
Perspectives: Courtly Women
Ono No Komachi (fl. c. 850), tr. Jane Hirschfield
Did he appear
When my desire
No way to see him
The autumn night
My longing for you–
After a lover visited in secrecy
The seaweed gatherer's weary feet
I thought to pick
Though I go to him constantly
While watching
Reply to Funga no Yasuhide
How invisibly
Resonance
From Kokinshu: Kana Preface
Mother of Mitchitsuna, from The Kagero Diary (974)
Sei Sh ônagon (1018, 1027), from The Pillowbook (996, 1001), tr. Ivan Morris
Kamo No Chomei (1155-1216), An Account of My Ten-Foot-Square Hut (1212), tr. Anthony Chambers
Tales of Heike (1218, 1309, 1371), tr. Helen McCullough
Bells of Gion
Gio
The Death of Kiyomori
The Death of Kiso
The Death of Atsumori
Death of Noritsune
The Drowning of the Former Emperor
The Matter of the Six Paths
The Death of the Imperial Lady
Noh: Drama of Ghosts, Memories, and Salvation
Kan'ami (1333-1384) and Zeami (1363-1443)
Atsumori, a Tale of Heike Play, tr. Royall Tyler
Matsukaze, a Woman Play, tr. Royall Tyler
Sumidagawa, a Tale of Ise Play, tr. Royall Tyler
Resonance
Kyôgen, Comic Interludes: Delicious Poison
Classical Islam
Pre-Islamic Poetry
Imru' al-Qays (d. 550)
Muallaqah (“Stop, let us weep at the memory of a loved one”)
Al-Khansa' (d. 646)
A mote in your eye, dust blown on the wind?, tr. Charles Greville Tuetey
Elegy for Sakhr (“In the evening remembrance keeps me awake”), tr. Alan Jones
Al- Saalik, The Brigand Poets
Urwah, Do not be so free with your blame of me, O daughter of Mundhir
Ta'abbata Sharra, A piece of news has come to us, terrible news
Ta'abbata Sharra, Come, who will convey to the young men of Fahm the news
The Qur'an, tr. Abdullah Yusuf Ali
From Sura 41. Expounded
From Sura 79. Those Who Tear Out
From Sura 15. The Rocky Tract
From Sura 2. The Heifer
From Sura 7. The Heights
Sura 1. The Opening
From Sura 4. The Women
From Sura 5. The Table Spread
From Sura 8. Spoils of War
From Sura 12. Joseph
From Sura 16. The Bee
From Sura 18. The Cave
From Sura 19. Mary
From Sura 21. The Prophet
From Sura 24. The Light
From Sura 28. The Story
From Sura 36. Ya Sin
From Sura 48. Victory
Sura 71. Noah
Sura 87. The Most High
Sura 93. The Morning Light
Sura 96. Read
Sura 110. The Help
Resonances
Ibn Ishaq: from The Biography of the Prophet
Ibn Sad: from The Prophet and his Disciples
Hafiz
The House of Hope, tr. A. J. Arberry
Zephyr, tr. J. H. Hindley
A Mad Heart, tr. A. J. Arberry
Cup in Hand, tr J. Payne
Last Night I Dreamed, tr. Gertrude Bell
Harvest, tr. Richard le Gallienne
All My Pleasure, tr. A. J. Arberry
Wild Deer, tr. A. J. Arberry
Resonance
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Blissful Yearning
Perspectives: Poetry, Wine and Love
Abu Nuwas
Splendid young blades, like lamps in the darkness
My body is racked with sickness, worn out by exhaustion
Praise wine in its sweetness, tr. Arthur Wormhoudt
O censor, I satisfied the Imam, he was content
Bringing the cup of oblivion for sadness
What's between me and the censurers
His friend called him Sammaja for his beauty
One possessed with a rosy cheek
Resonance
Hasab al-Shaik Ja'far: from Descent of Abu Nuwas
Abu Tammam
Genial now, the season's trim's a quiver, tr. Julia Ashtiany
Where rock and sand dune meet, tr. Felix Klein-Franke
Al-Buhturi
I have preserved my soul from what pollutes my soul, tr. Richard Serrano after A. J. Arberry
Ibn al-Rumi
Say to whomever finds fault with the poem of his panegyrist, tr. Peter Blum, after Gregor Schoeler
I have been deprived of all the comforts of life, tr. Peter Blum, after Gregor Schoeler
I thought of you the day my journeys, tr. Robert Mckinney
Sweet sleep has been barred from my eyes
Al-Mutanabbi
On Hearing in Egypt that his Death had been Reported
Satire on Kafur Composed. before the Poet's Departure from Egypt
Panegyric to Abdud al-Daula and his sons
Ibn Zaydun, tr. A. R. Nykl
May God pour rain over the dwellings of the beloved
Our separation replaced our being near each other
I remembered you in Az-Zahra, while longing for you
Abu 'Uthman Ibn Bahr Al-Jahiz
The Book of Misers tr. R. B. Serjeant
From The Book of Singing Girls, tr. A. F. L. Beeston
The Life and Works of Jahiz, tr. D. M. Hawke
The Thousand and One Nights, tr. Husain Haddawy and Powys Mathers
Prologue: The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter, tr. Husain Haddawy
The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey
The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife
The Tale of the Porter and the Young Girls
Tale of the Second Kalander
The Tale of Zubaidah, the First of the Girls
From The Tale of Sympathy the Learned
From An Adventure of the Poet Abu Nuwas
The Extraordinary Tale of the City of Brass
The Flowering Terrace of Wit and the Garden of Gallantry
The Youth and His Master
The Wonderful Bag
Al-Rashid Judges of Love
From The End of Ja'far and the Barmakids
From Conclusion
Resonance
from The History of al-Tabari
Jalaloddin Rumi (1207-1283)
What excuses have you to offer, my heart, for so many shortcomings?, tr. A.J. Arberry
The king has come, the king has come, adorn your palace-hall, tr. A.J. Arberry
Have you ever seen any lover who was satiated with this passion?, tr. A.J. Arberry
Three days it is now since my fair one has become changed, tr. A.J. Arberry
The month of December has departed, and January too, tr. A.J. Arberry
We have become drunk, and our heart has departed, it has fled from us, tr. A.J. Arberry
We are foes to ourselves, and friends to him who slays us, tr. A.J. Arberry
Not for a single moment do I let hold of you, tr. A.J. Arberry
Who'll take us home, now we've drunk ourselves blind? , tr. Amin Banani
Perspectives: Asceticism, Sufism, and Wisdom
Al-Hallaj
I have a dear friend whom I visit in solitary places, tr.D. P. Brewster
I continued to float on the sea of love, tr. M. M. Badawi
Painful enough it is that I am ever calling out to You, tr. M. M. Badawi
Your place in my heart is the whole of my heart, tr. M. M. Badawi
You who blame me for my love of Him, tr. M. M. Badawi
I swear to God, the sun has never risen or set, tr. M. M. Badawi
Ah! I or You? These are two Gods, tr. Samah Salim
Here am I, here am I, O my secret, O my trust! , tr. Samah Salim
I am not I and I am not He; then who am I and who is He? , tr. Samah Salim
Al-Niffari
From The Book of Spiritual Stayings, tr. Arthur John Arberry
Ibn al-cArabi, tr. Gerald Elmore
O domicile without rival, neither abandoned
I am “The Reviver”-I speak not allusively
Of knowers, am I not most avaricious
Truly, my two Friends, I am a keeper of the Holy Law
Time is passing by the days of my youth and vigor
Bouts of dryness came upon me constantly from every side
Law and Soundness make of him a heretic
The time of my release, which I had always calculated
To that which they don't understand all people do oppose
The abode from which thou art absent is sad
Farid UD-Din al'Attar
From The Conference of the Birds, tr. Afkhan Darbandi and Dick Davis
Firdawsi
al-Shah-nameh: The Book of Kings
From The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam
From The Epic of Son-Jara
Medieval Europe
Beowulf (Old English, c. 8th-10th century), tr. A. Sullivan and T. Murphy
Resonances
From The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
Jorge Luis Borges: Poem Written in the Copy of Beowulf
The Poem of the Cid (Castilian, late 12th-early 13th century), tr. W.S. Merwin
Perspectives: Iberia, the Meeting of Three Worlds
Castilian Ballads and Traditional Songs (c. 11th-14th century)
Ballad of Juliana, tr. Edwin Honig
Abenámar, tr. William M. Davis
These mountains, mother, tr. James Duffy
I will not pick verbena, tr. James Duffy
Three moorish girls, tr. Angela Buxton
Mozarabic Kharjas (c. 10th-early 11th century), tr. Dronke
As if you were a stranger
Ah tell me, little sisters
My lord Ibrahim
I'll give you such love
Take me out of this plight
Mother, I shall not sleep, tr. William M. Davis
Ibn Hazm (Hispano-Arabic, 994-1064), tr. James Monroe
From The Dove's Neckring
Averroë (Hispano-Arabic, 1126-1198)
From The Decisive Treatise Determining the Nature of the Connection
Between Religion and Philosophy, tr. G.F. Hourani
Ibn al-cArabi (Hispano-Arabic, 1165-1240)
Gentle now, doves, tr. Michael Sells or James Monroe
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
She looked at me and her eyelids burned, tr. William M. Davis
Behold the sun at evening, tr Scheindlin
The mind is flawed, tr. Scheindlin
Winter wrote with the ink of its rain and showers
Yehuda Ha-Levi (before 1075-1141)
Cups without wine are lowly, tr. William M. Davis
Ofra does her laundry with my tears, tr. Raymond Scheindlin
Once when I fondled him upon my thighs, tr. Scheindlin
From time's beginning, You were love's abode, tr. Scheindlin
Your breeze, Western shore, is perfumed, tr. Goldstein
My heart is in the east, r. Goldstein
From The Book of the Khazars
Ramón Lull (Catalan, 1233-1315)
From Blanquerna: The Book of the Lover and the Beloved (Catalan), tr. E. Allison Peers
Dom Dinis, King of Portugal (Galician-Portuguese, 1261-1325)
Provençals right well may versify, tr. William M. Davis
Of what are you dying, daughter?, tr.Fowler
O blossoms of the verdant pine, tr. Fowler
The lovely girl arose at earliest dawn, tr. Fowler
Martin Codax (Galician-Portuguese, fl. mid-13th century)
Ah God, if only my love could know, tr. Dronke
My beautiful sister, come hurry with me, tr. Fowler
Oh waves that I've come to see, tr. Fowler
Troubadours and Trobairitz (Occitan) tr. David L. Pike
Guillem de Peiteus (1071-1127)
Bernart de Ventadorn (fl. 1150-1180)
Béatrice, La Comtessa de Dia (fl. c. 1160)
Bertran de Born (b. c. 1140)
Walther Von Der Vogelweide (Middle High German, c. 1170-c. 1230), tr. David Damrosch
Will anyone tell me what Minne is?
Under the lime tree
I sat down on a rock
Alas, all my years, where have they disappeared
Palestine Song (“Now my life has gained some meaning”), tr. Barbara Garvey Seagrave & Wesley Thomas
Resonance
From Carmina Burana: Epicurus loudly cries
Marie de France (Anglo-Norman, mid-12th - early 13th century)
Lais, tr. Joan Ferrante and Robert Hanning
Prologue
Bisclavret
Chevrefoi
Lanval
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English, late 14th century), tr. J.R.R. Tolkien
Perspectives: The Art of Love
Ovid (43 B.C.E.-18 ce), from The Art of Love (Latin, c. 1 B.C.E.), tr. Peter Green
Andreas Capellanus, from The Art of Courtly Love (Latin, late 11th c), tr. John Jay Parry
Gottfried von Strassburg, from Tristan (Middle High German, c. 1210), tr. A. T. Hatto
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, from The Romance of the Rose (Old French, ca. 1220-1230), tr. Harry W Robbins
Christine de Pizan (1363-1429?) from The Letter of the God of Love (Old French), tr. Thelma Fenster
Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, from The Book of Good Love (Castilian, mid-14th century), tr. Rigo Mignani & Mario di Cesare
Abelard and Heloise (Latin, early to mid-12th century) tr. Betty Radice
Abelard: from Historia Calamitatum, tr. Henry Adams Bellows
Abelard and Heloise: from Letters 1-5, tr. Betty Radice
Abelard: Lament, tr. Helen Waddell
Abelard: from Yes and No, tr. Brian Tierney
Resonance
Bernard of Clairvaux: Letters against Abelard
The Play of Adam (Anglo-Norman, mid to late 12th century), tr. Richard Axton & John Stevens
Scene 1, Adam and Eve
Perspectives: Theology And Mysticism
Anselm of Canterbury (Latin, 1033-1109), from Proslogion, tr. M. J. Charlesworth
Thomas Aquinas (Latin, 1225-1274), from Summa Theologica, tr. Anton C. Pegis
Bernard of Clairvaux (Latin, 1090-1153), from Sermons on the Song of Songs, tr. Kilian Walsh
Hildegard von Bingen (Latin, 1078-1179), from Scivias, tr. Mother Columba Hart & Jane Bishop and Sequence: The Dov Peered In, tr. Dronke
Mechthild von Magdeburg (Latin, 1207-1282), from The Flowing Light of the Godhead, tr.David Damrosch
Dante Alighieri (Florentine Italian, 1265-1321)
La Vita Nuova, tr. Mark Musa
The Divine Comedy
Inferno, tr. Allen Mandelbaum
Purgatorio(Certain sections selected), tr. Allen Mandelbaum
Paradiso(Certain sections selected), tr. Allen Mandelbaum
Resonances
Chaucer: from The Monk's Tale
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ugolino
Amiri Baraka: from The System of Dante's Hell
Geoffrey Chaucer (Middle, English, 1340-1400)
Canterbury Tales(Certain sections selected), tr. J.U. Nicolson
François Villon (French, 1431-after 1463)
From The Testament, tr. Galway Kinnell
Ballad of the Hanged, tr. Kendall Lappin
VOLUME C: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Cross-Currents: Vernacular Revolutions
Vernacular Writing in South Asia
Basavanna (Kannada, 1200), tr. A. K. Ramanujan
Like a monkey on a tree
You can make them talk
The crookedness of the serpent
I don't know anything like time-beats and meter
The rich
Resonance
Palkuriki Somanatha: from The Lore of Basava
Mahadeviyakka (Kannada, 1200), tr. A. K. Ramanujan
Other men are thorn
Who cares / who strips a tree of leaf
Better than meeting
Kabir (Hindi, 15th century), tr. Linda Hess and Shukdev Sinha
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.@AHEADS = Tukaram (Marathi, 1608-1649), tr. Dilip Chitre
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, Temple Courtesan Songs (Telugu, 17th century), tr. A. K. Ramanujan et al
A Woman to Her Love
A Young Woman to a Friend
A Courtesan to Her Love
A Married Woman Speaks to Her Lover
A Married Woman to Her Lover (1)
A Married Woman to Her Lover (2)
WuCh'Eng-En (China, 1506-1581)
From Journey to the West, tr. Anthony Yu
Resonance
From The Ramayana of Valmiki: Hanuman Searches for Sita
The Rise of the Vernacular in Europe
Biblical Translations
Psalm 23
The Gospel of Luke 1:26-39
New World Psalms
Attacking and Defending the Vernacular Bible
Henry Knighton: from Chronicle (1382), tr. Anne Hudson
Martin Luther: from On Translating: An Open Letter (1530), tr. Jacobs, rev. Bachman
The King James Bible: from The Translators to the Reader (1611)
Women and the Vernacular
Dante Alighieri: from Letter to Can Grande della Scala, tr. Robert S. Haller
Erasmus: from The Abbot and the Learned Lady, tr. Craig Thompson
Catherine of Siena: from Letter to Raymond of Capua on how she learned to write, tr. Jane Tylus
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: from Response to “Sor Filotea”, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden
Early Modern Europe
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Decameron(Certain sections selected), tr. G.H. McWilliam
Marguerite de Navarre
Heptameron(Certain sections selected)
Francis Petrarch (1304-1374)
Letters on familiar matters, tr. Aldo Bernardo
To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro (On Climbing Mt. Ventoux)
To Boccaccio (On imitation)
Resonance
Laura Cereta: To Sister Deodata di Leno
Scattered Rhymes
During the Life of My Lady Laura (Certain sections selected)
After the Death of My Lady Laura. (Certain sections selected)
Resonances
Virgil: from Fourth Georgic
Resonances: Petrarch and His Translators
Petrarch: Una candida cerva sopra l'erba
Petrarch: A white doe on the green grass, tr. Robert Durling
Chiara Matraini: Fera son io di questo ambroso loco
Chiara Matraini: I am a wild deer in this shady wood, tr. Stortoni & Lille
Thomas Wyatt: Whoso list to hunt
Perspectives: Sonnet Sequences and Self-Definition
Louise Labé (c. 1524-1566), tr. Frank J. Warnke
When I behold you, your blond tresses crowned
Lute, companion of my wretched state
Kiss me again, again, kiss me again!@MBHEADS = Alas, what boots it that not long ago
Do not reproach me, Ladies, if I've loved
Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564)
This comes of dangling from the ceiling, tr. Peter Porter and George Bull
My Lord, in your most gracious face I see, tr. Peter Porter and George Bull
I wish to want, Lord, what eludes my will, tr. Peter Porter and George Bull
No block of marble but it does not hide, tr. Peter Porter and Goerge Bull
How chances it, my Lady, that we must, tr. Peter Porter and George Bull
Vittoria Colonna, tr. Laura Anna Stortoni and Mary Prentic Lillie
Between harsh rocks and violent wind
Whatever life I once had
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
1 (“From fairest creatures we desire increase”)
3 (“Look in they glass, and tell the face thou viewest”)
17 (“Who will believe my verse in time to come”)
55 (“Not marble nor the gilded monuments”)
73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)
87 (“Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing”)
116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”)
126 (“O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power”)
127 (“In the old age black was not counted fair”)
130 (“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”)
Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584)
Laments (Certain sections selected), tr. Stanislaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (c. 1651-1695)
She disavows the flattery visible in a portrait of herself, tr. Alan S. Trueblood
She complains of her lot, tr. Alan S. Trueblood
She shows distress at being abused for the applause her talent brings, tr. Alan S. Trueblood
In which she visits moral censure on a rose, tr. Alan S. Trueblood
She answers suspicions in the rhetoric of tears, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden
On the death of that most excellent lady, Marquise de Mancera, tr. Alan S. Trueblood
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
The Prince (Certain sections selected), tr. Mark Musa
Resonance
Baldessar Castiglione: from The Book of the Courtier
Sir Thomas More (1477-1535)
Utopia, tr. C.G. Richards
Perspectives: Literature of Religious Crisis
Desiderius Erasmus, (c. 1466-1536)
From In Praise of Folly, tr. Betty Radice
Martin Luther
From To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, tr. C.M. Jacobs
From The Bondage of the Will, tr. Ernst F. Winter
Thomas Muntzer
From Sermon to the Princes, tr. Robert A. Fowkes
Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
From Interior Castle, tr. E. Allison Peers
Saint John of the Cross
The Dark Night
Domenico Scandella (known asMenocchio)
From His trials before the Inquisition (1583-1599), tr. John and Anne Tedeschi
François Rablais (c. 1495-1553)
Gargantua and Pantagruel(Certain sections selected), tr. J.M. Cohen
Luis Vaz de Camões (c. 1524-1580)
The Lusiads (Certain selections selected), tr. Landeg White
Resonance
From Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco de Gama
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), Essays, tr.Donald Frame
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
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Don Quixote (Certain sections selected) tr. J. M. Cohen
Resonance
Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
Fuenteovejuna
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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 (Certain sections selected)
The Devotions (Certain sections selected)
Sermons(Certain sections selected)
John Milton (1608-1674)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
When I Consider How My Light is Spent
Paradise Lost (Certain sections selected)
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
Mesoamerica: Before Columbus and After Cortés
The Legend of the Suns (Nahuatl, 16th century), tr. Leon-Portilla and Lobanov
From Popol Vuh: The Mayan Council Book (Quiché Maya, 16th century.), tr. Dennis Tedlock
Prologue
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 (c. 1520-1560), tr. Bierhorst and Damrosch
Make your beginning, you who sing
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
Perspectives: The Conquest and its Aftermath
Christopher Columbus
Letter to Sovereigns (4 March 1493), tr. M. Zamora
From Letter to Raphael Sanchez, tr. P.L. Ford
From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella (7 July 1503)
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
From The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (c. 1565), tr. A. P. Maudslay
Bernardino de Sahagún
From General History of the Affairs of New Spain, tr. Anderson and Dibble
From The Aztec-Spanish Dialogues of 1524, tr. J. Jorge Klor de Alva
Hernando Ruíz de Alarcón
From Treatise on the Superstitions of the Natives of this New Spain, tr. Coe & Whittaker
Resonance
Julio Cortázar: Axolotl
Bartolomé de las Casas
From Apologetic History, tr. George Sanderlin
Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz
From The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of The Divine Narcissus, tr. Peters and Domieier
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.7.2004 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 2631 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| ISBN-10 | 0-321-20238-4 / 0321202384 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-321-20238-3 / 9780321202383 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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