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The Norton Anthology of World Literature #B
The Norton Anthology of World Literature: 100 to 1500
Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Now published in six paperback volumes (packaged in two attractive slipcases), the new anthology boasts slimmer volumes, thicker paper, a bolder typeface, and dozens of newly included or newly translated works from around the world. The Norton Anthology of World Literature represents continuity as well as change. Like its predecessor, the anthology is a compact library of world literature, offering an astounding forty-three complete longer works, more than fifty prose works, over one hundred lyric poems, and twenty-three plays. More portable, more suitable for period courses, more pleasant to read, and more attuned to current teaching and research trends, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most authoritative, comprehensive, and teachable anthology for the world literature survey.
1264 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2001
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July 22, 2021
1200 pages. about 600 of them on excerpts from European ("Western") literature you've heard of or studied elsewhere. Not a great ratio, Norton! (I'll admit it's significantly better than volumes A and C of this series, though.)
India, China, Japan feature heavily. Some Islamic literature here as well. Almost all are excerpts, very few complete works.
India, China, Japan feature heavily. Some Islamic literature here as well. Almost all are excerpts, very few complete works.
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1) MEDIEVAL LYRICS
•BOETHIUS, FROM THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY
•NOTKER BALBULUS, A HYMN TO HOLY WOMEN
•ANONYMOUS, THE RUIN
•ANANYMOUS, SONG OF SUMMER
•IBN ZAYDUN, FROM AL-ZAHRA
•WILLIAM IX, ILL MAKE A VERSE OF NOTHING AT ALL
•ARNAUT DANIEL THE ART OF LOVE
•YEHUDA HALEVI
-To lhn al-Mu'allim
-Lord
•HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
-Responsory for the Virgin (Slender liranch)
-Responsory for the Virgin (Priceless Integrity)
•ARCHPOET, HIS CONFESSION
•AVRAHAM IBN EZRA, ELEGY FOR A SON
•BERNART DE VENTADORN, WHEN I SEE THE LARK STRETCH OUT
•BEATRICE OF DIA, A LOVER'S PRIZE
•BERTRAN DE BORN, IN PRAISE OF WAR
•HEINRICH VON MORUNGEN, THE WOUND OF LOVE
•WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE, DANCING GIRL
•IBN 'ARABI, GENTLE NOW, DOVES
•ALFONSO X. THE SCORPIONS
•SHEM TOV ARDUTIEL, FROM THE BATTLES OF THE PEN AND SCISSORS
•HADEWIJCH OF BRABANT, THE CULT OF LOVE
•ANONYMOUS, CALVARY
•GUIDO GUINIZZELLI, LOVE ALWAYS REPAIRS TO THE NOBLE HEART
•GUIDO CAVALCANTI, A LADY ASKS ME / 351
•DANTE ALIGHIERI
-Guido, I Wish
-Love and the Gentle Heart
•ALEXANDER THE WILD, STRAWBERRY PICKING
•DAFYDD AP GWILYM, THE FOX
•HAFEZ
-Plant Friendship's Tree
-Thanks be to god
•JAHAN KHATUN, HEART, IN HIS BEAUTYS GARDEN
•CHRISTINE DE PIZAN, ALL ALONE AM I, AND ALONE I WISH TO STAY
•ANONYMOUS, LAMENT OF THE VIRGIN
•CHARLES D'ORLEANS, IF YOU WISH TO SELL YOUR KISSES
•JALAL AD-DIN MUHAMMAD RUMI
[The nights I spend with you]
[Like blood beneath my skin]
[Profession, profit, trade]
[A rose is still a rose]
[How marvelous, that moment]
[On death's day]
2) CLASSICAL TAMIL LYRIC
•AKAM POEMS
Five Interior Landscapes
1. The Hills: Lovers' Unions
[In his country]
[Forest animals walk there]
[He is from those mountains]
[The colors on the elephant's bodyl]
2. The Seashore: Ansious Waiting
What her girl friend said [Near the salt pans]
What her girl friend said [On the new sand
3. The Wasteland: Lovers' Hardships
What she said [The round blaring sun]
What he said [A hen-eagle broods]
4. The Forest: Happiness after Marriage
What he said [Her arms have the beauty]
What he said [Rains in season]
From Seven Said by the Foster Mother
5. The Lowland: Unfaithfulness
What she said [In his country]
What her girl friend asked [From the long fronds]
•PURAM POEMS
The Exterior Landscape
[This world lives because]
Earth's hounty
Children
A Young Warrior
A Mother's List of Duties
3) CLASSICAL SANSKRIT LYRIC
•BHARTRHARI
[I haven't been the cloud]
[When she's out of sight]
[When I knew little]
[To His Patron]
[A human being]
[As the sun rises and sets]
[For a moment he's a child]
•THREE WOMEN POETS
Vikatanitämba, [As he came to bed the knot fell open of itself]
Bhävakadevi, [At first our bodies knew a perfect oneness]
Vidya, [Good neighbor wife, I beg you]
•BĂNA
1166 [The horse rises, stretches its hind legs]
1174 [The puff of smoke from the forest fire]
1305 [At evening having warmed himself]
•DHARMAKİRTI
477 [Your union with your lover will be very brief]
1213 [Never to ask the wicked]
1729 [There's no one riding ahead of me]
•BHAVABHÚTÍ
598 [And as we talked together softly, secretly]
753 [A flood of tears blurs vision]
783 [My love is married to me]
1731 [The people in this world who scorn me]
•YOGEŚVARA / 1068
257 [Now the great cloud cat]
291 [The days are sweet with ripening of sugar cane]
314 [Now may one prire the peasant houses]
315 [The fields where sesamum has ripened]
318 [The warmth of their straw borne off by icy winds]
1163 [The cat has humped her back]
1312 [When the rain pours down on the decrepit house]
•MURĂRI
913 [Is the moonlight]
958 [As the moon ages]
1019 [O pearl free of flaws]
1526 [My limbs are frail]
1585 [I remember this mountain]
•RÄJAŠEKHARA
457 [When people see her face]
336 [Youthfulness inscribes all her parts]
525 [The damsel of arched eyebrows]
4) MEDIEVAL CHINA
•TAO QIAN (365-427)
The Peach Blossom Spring
The Return
Biography of Master Five Willows
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit :
I. Substance to Shadow
II. Shadow to Substance
III. Spirit's Solution
Returning to the Farm to Dwell
Begging for Food
On Moving louse
In the sixth Month of 408, Fire
From Twenty Poems after Drinking Wine
Finding Fault with My Sons
From On Reading the Seas and Mountain Classic
Elegy
•HANSHAN (Cold Mountain) (ca. 600-800)
[Whoever reads my poems]
[Tremslated by Robert Hendricks]
[A thatched hut]
[A curtain of pearls]
[Here we languish]
[In my first thirty years]
[Wonderful, this road to Cold Mountain]
[When people see the man of Cold Mountain]
[High, high from the summit of the peak]
[I longed to visit the castem cliff]
[On Cold Mountain there's a naked bug]
[Men ask the way to Cold Mountain]
[My mind is like the autumn moon]
[So Hanshan writes you these words]
[Do you have the poems of Hanshan in your house?]
•LI QINGZHAO (1084-ca. 1151)
From Records on Metal and Stone
-Afterword
Song Lyries
-To "Southerm Song"
-To "Free-Spirited Fisherman"
-To "Like a Dream"
-To "Drunk in the Shadow of Flowering Trees"
-To "Spring in Wuling"
-To "Note After Note"
4.2) TANG POETRY
•WANG WEI
Zhongnan Retreat
In Response to Vice-Magistrate Zhang
From Wang River Collection
-Preface
-Deer Enclosure
-Lake Yi
-Gold Powder Spring
-White Rock Rapids
Written on Crossing the Yellow River to Quinghe
While I Was Imprisoned in Puti Monastery
Farewell
•LI BO
The Sun Rises and Sets
South of the Walls We Fought
Bring in the Wine
Question and Answer in the Mountains
Summer Day in the Mountains
Drinking Alone with the Moon
The Hardships of Traveling the Road
Seeing Off Meng Haoran at Yellow Crane Tower, on His Way to Guangling
In the Quiet Night
Sitting Alone by Jingting Mountain
A Song on Visiting Heaven's Crone Mountain in a Dream, On Parting
•DU FU
Painted Hawk
Moonlight Night
Spring Prospect
Qiang Village I
My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind
I Stand Alone
Spending the Night in a Tower by the River
Thoughts while Travelling at Night
Ballad of the Firewood Vendors
Autumn Meditations IV
•BO JUYI
The Song of Lasting Regret
Chen Hong, An Account to Go with the "Song of Lasting Regret"
Salt Merchant's Wife (in hatred of profiteers)
On My Portrait
Last Poem
5) POETRY OF THE HEIAN COURT
•SUGAWARA NO MICHIZANE
On "Looking at the Plum Blossoms on a Moonlit Night"
I Stop Practicing the Zither
The Hardships of Professors
Note on My Library
Seeing the Plum Blossoms When Sentenced to Exile
In Exile, Spring Snow
1) MEDIEVAL LYRICS
•BOETHIUS, FROM THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY
•NOTKER BALBULUS, A HYMN TO HOLY WOMEN
•ANONYMOUS, THE RUIN
•ANANYMOUS, SONG OF SUMMER
•IBN ZAYDUN, FROM AL-ZAHRA
•WILLIAM IX, ILL MAKE A VERSE OF NOTHING AT ALL
•ARNAUT DANIEL THE ART OF LOVE
•YEHUDA HALEVI
-To lhn al-Mu'allim
-Lord
•HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
-Responsory for the Virgin (Slender liranch)
-Responsory for the Virgin (Priceless Integrity)
•ARCHPOET, HIS CONFESSION
•AVRAHAM IBN EZRA, ELEGY FOR A SON
•BERNART DE VENTADORN, WHEN I SEE THE LARK STRETCH OUT
•BEATRICE OF DIA, A LOVER'S PRIZE
•BERTRAN DE BORN, IN PRAISE OF WAR
•HEINRICH VON MORUNGEN, THE WOUND OF LOVE
•WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE, DANCING GIRL
•IBN 'ARABI, GENTLE NOW, DOVES
•ALFONSO X. THE SCORPIONS
•SHEM TOV ARDUTIEL, FROM THE BATTLES OF THE PEN AND SCISSORS
•HADEWIJCH OF BRABANT, THE CULT OF LOVE
•ANONYMOUS, CALVARY
•GUIDO GUINIZZELLI, LOVE ALWAYS REPAIRS TO THE NOBLE HEART
•GUIDO CAVALCANTI, A LADY ASKS ME / 351
•DANTE ALIGHIERI
-Guido, I Wish
-Love and the Gentle Heart
•ALEXANDER THE WILD, STRAWBERRY PICKING
•DAFYDD AP GWILYM, THE FOX
•HAFEZ
-Plant Friendship's Tree
-Thanks be to god
•JAHAN KHATUN, HEART, IN HIS BEAUTYS GARDEN
•CHRISTINE DE PIZAN, ALL ALONE AM I, AND ALONE I WISH TO STAY
•ANONYMOUS, LAMENT OF THE VIRGIN
•CHARLES D'ORLEANS, IF YOU WISH TO SELL YOUR KISSES
•JALAL AD-DIN MUHAMMAD RUMI
[The nights I spend with you]
[Like blood beneath my skin]
[Profession, profit, trade]
[A rose is still a rose]
[How marvelous, that moment]
[On death's day]
2) CLASSICAL TAMIL LYRIC
•AKAM POEMS
Five Interior Landscapes
1. The Hills: Lovers' Unions
[In his country]
[Forest animals walk there]
[He is from those mountains]
[The colors on the elephant's bodyl]
2. The Seashore: Ansious Waiting
What her girl friend said [Near the salt pans]
What her girl friend said [On the new sand
3. The Wasteland: Lovers' Hardships
What she said [The round blaring sun]
What he said [A hen-eagle broods]
4. The Forest: Happiness after Marriage
What he said [Her arms have the beauty]
What he said [Rains in season]
From Seven Said by the Foster Mother
5. The Lowland: Unfaithfulness
What she said [In his country]
What her girl friend asked [From the long fronds]
•PURAM POEMS
The Exterior Landscape
[This world lives because]
Earth's hounty
Children
A Young Warrior
A Mother's List of Duties
3) CLASSICAL SANSKRIT LYRIC
•BHARTRHARI
[I haven't been the cloud]
[When she's out of sight]
[When I knew little]
[To His Patron]
[A human being]
[As the sun rises and sets]
[For a moment he's a child]
•THREE WOMEN POETS
Vikatanitämba, [As he came to bed the knot fell open of itself]
Bhävakadevi, [At first our bodies knew a perfect oneness]
Vidya, [Good neighbor wife, I beg you]
•BĂNA
1166 [The horse rises, stretches its hind legs]
1174 [The puff of smoke from the forest fire]
1305 [At evening having warmed himself]
•DHARMAKİRTI
477 [Your union with your lover will be very brief]
1213 [Never to ask the wicked]
1729 [There's no one riding ahead of me]
•BHAVABHÚTÍ
598 [And as we talked together softly, secretly]
753 [A flood of tears blurs vision]
783 [My love is married to me]
1731 [The people in this world who scorn me]
•YOGEŚVARA / 1068
257 [Now the great cloud cat]
291 [The days are sweet with ripening of sugar cane]
314 [Now may one prire the peasant houses]
315 [The fields where sesamum has ripened]
318 [The warmth of their straw borne off by icy winds]
1163 [The cat has humped her back]
1312 [When the rain pours down on the decrepit house]
•MURĂRI
913 [Is the moonlight]
958 [As the moon ages]
1019 [O pearl free of flaws]
1526 [My limbs are frail]
1585 [I remember this mountain]
•RÄJAŠEKHARA
457 [When people see her face]
336 [Youthfulness inscribes all her parts]
525 [The damsel of arched eyebrows]
4) MEDIEVAL CHINA
•TAO QIAN (365-427)
The Peach Blossom Spring
The Return
Biography of Master Five Willows
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit :
I. Substance to Shadow
II. Shadow to Substance
III. Spirit's Solution
Returning to the Farm to Dwell
Begging for Food
On Moving louse
In the sixth Month of 408, Fire
From Twenty Poems after Drinking Wine
Finding Fault with My Sons
From On Reading the Seas and Mountain Classic
Elegy
•HANSHAN (Cold Mountain) (ca. 600-800)
[Whoever reads my poems]
[Tremslated by Robert Hendricks]
[A thatched hut]
[A curtain of pearls]
[Here we languish]
[In my first thirty years]
[Wonderful, this road to Cold Mountain]
[When people see the man of Cold Mountain]
[High, high from the summit of the peak]
[I longed to visit the castem cliff]
[On Cold Mountain there's a naked bug]
[Men ask the way to Cold Mountain]
[My mind is like the autumn moon]
[So Hanshan writes you these words]
[Do you have the poems of Hanshan in your house?]
•LI QINGZHAO (1084-ca. 1151)
From Records on Metal and Stone
-Afterword
Song Lyries
-To "Southerm Song"
-To "Free-Spirited Fisherman"
-To "Like a Dream"
-To "Drunk in the Shadow of Flowering Trees"
-To "Spring in Wuling"
-To "Note After Note"
4.2) TANG POETRY
•WANG WEI
Zhongnan Retreat
In Response to Vice-Magistrate Zhang
From Wang River Collection
-Preface
-Deer Enclosure
-Lake Yi
-Gold Powder Spring
-White Rock Rapids
Written on Crossing the Yellow River to Quinghe
While I Was Imprisoned in Puti Monastery
Farewell
•LI BO
The Sun Rises and Sets
South of the Walls We Fought
Bring in the Wine
Question and Answer in the Mountains
Summer Day in the Mountains
Drinking Alone with the Moon
The Hardships of Traveling the Road
Seeing Off Meng Haoran at Yellow Crane Tower, on His Way to Guangling
In the Quiet Night
Sitting Alone by Jingting Mountain
A Song on Visiting Heaven's Crone Mountain in a Dream, On Parting
•DU FU
Painted Hawk
Moonlight Night
Spring Prospect
Qiang Village I
My Thatched Roof Is Ruined by the Autumn Wind
I Stand Alone
Spending the Night in a Tower by the River
Thoughts while Travelling at Night
Ballad of the Firewood Vendors
Autumn Meditations IV
•BO JUYI
The Song of Lasting Regret
Chen Hong, An Account to Go with the "Song of Lasting Regret"
Salt Merchant's Wife (in hatred of profiteers)
On My Portrait
Last Poem
5) POETRY OF THE HEIAN COURT
•SUGAWARA NO MICHIZANE
On "Looking at the Plum Blossoms on a Moonlit Night"
I Stop Practicing the Zither
The Hardships of Professors
Note on My Library
Seeing the Plum Blossoms When Sentenced to Exile
In Exile, Spring Snow
February 24, 2018
Great boom with plenty of well told stories
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