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Western Literature I: The Ancient World
Western Literature I The Ancient World
Author:
The three volumes of Western Literature are intended to provide the student with a broad view of the literature of the Western world. The volume on the Ancient World contains some of the best representative examples of the Hebraic and Greco-Roman traditions and of the origins of Christian writing. — The second volume, covering the Mi... more », opens with a troubadour's lyric to a faraway love and ends with Voltaire's satire on complacent optimism. The third volume, devoted to the Modern World, traces the contemporary spirit from Rousseau to two current masters of the Americas.
Volume1: Ancient World --
General introduction / A Bartlett Giamatti --
Old Testament: Creation --
Fall of man --
Flood --
Book of Job --
Psalms 8, 22, 23, 137 --
Song of songs --
Iliad --
Odyssey / Homer --
History / Herodotus --
Agamemnon / Aeschylus --
History of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides --
Oedipus the king / Sophocles --
Bacchae / Euripides --
Lysistrata / Aristophanes --
Apology --
Phaedo / Plato --
Greek And Roman Poetry --
Works and days / Hesiod --
To Aphrodite --
To a girl --
Love / Sappho --
First Pythian ode: to Hieron / Pindar --
Harvest feast / Theocritus --
To Lesbia --
Invitation to love --
To Lesbia kind --
On her falsehood / Catullus --
Fourth eclogue / Virgil --
To Pyrrha / Horace --
Metamorphoses / Ovid --
On the nature of things / Lucretius --
Dream of Scipio / Cicero --
Aeneid / Virgil --
New Testament: Birth and youth of Christ --
Sermon on the mount --
Parables of Jesus --
Christ's betrayal, denial, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection --
Saul's conversion --
Revelation --
Satyricon / Petronius --
Annals / Tacitus --
Confessions / St Augustine. Volume 2: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment --
General introduction / A Bartlett Giamatti --
Medieval And Renaissance Love Lyrics --
Poem / Jaufre Rudel --
Ballata X / Guido Cavalcanti --
Sonnet / Dante Alighieri --
Sonnet 3 --
Sonnet 364 / Francesco Petrarch --
Ballade of the ladies of time past / Francois Villon --
Poem / Clement Marot --
Who so list to hunt / Sir Thomas Wyatt --
Sonnet / Pierre de Ronsard --
Sonnet / Sir Philip Sidney --
Sonnet 9 / Edmund Spenser --
Sonnet 73 --
Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare --
Three Poems Of Passionate Shepherds --
Passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe --
Nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh --
Bait / John Donne --
Valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne --
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvel --
Inferno / Dante Alighieri --
Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio --
Canterbury Tales / General prologue / Nun's priest tale / Pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Gargantua and Pantagruel / Francois Rabelais --
Othello / William Shakerspeare --
Don Quixote / Miguel Cervantes --
Misanthrope / Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) --
Paradise Lost / John Milton --
Gulliver's travels, book four / Jonathan Swift --
Candide / Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet). Volume 3: Modern World --
General introduction / A Bartlett Giamatti --
Reveries of a solitary / Jean-Jacques Rousseau --
Faust, part 1 / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --
Selected Poems Of William Wordsworth --
Tintern Abbey --
Simplon pass --
Slumber did my spirit seal --
Composed upon Westminster Bridge --
Solitary reaper --
Immortality ode --
Romantic Poetry --
Mock on, mock on / William Blake --
Promethus / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
When I have fears --
Ode to a nightingale --
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats --
Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
To the Parcae / Friedrich Holderlin --
Shipwrecked / Heinrich Heine --
Mors / Victor Hugo --
Infinite / Giacomo Leopardi --
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Pent-up aching rivers / Walt Whitman --
Facino Cane / Honore de Balzac --
Diary of a madman / Nikolai Gogol --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Simple heart / Gustave Flaubert --
Dream of a ridiculous man / Fydor Dostoevksy --
Real thing / Henry James --
Master builder / Henrik Ibsen --
Malaria / Giovanni Verga --
Tristan / Thomas Mann --
Selected Poems Of William Butler Yeats --
No second Troy --
Sailing to Byzantium --
Leda and the swan --
Among school children --
Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop --
Acre of grass --
Symbolist And Modernist Poetry --
Spleen / Charles Baudelaire --
Dawn / Arthur Rimbaud --
Le Cygne / Stephane Mallarme --
After great pain, a formal feeling comes / Emily Dickinson --
Portrait d'une femme / Ezra Pound --
Love song of J Alfre Prufrock / T S Eliot --
Self-portrait / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Twelve / Alexander Blok --
Casida of flight / Federico Garcia Lorca --
Sunflower / Eugenio Montale --
Final soliloquy of the interior paramour / Wallace Stevens --
Araby / James Joyce --
Tickets, please / D H Lawrence --
Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello --
Return of the prodigal son / Andre Gide --
Hunger artist / Franz Kafka --
Clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --
Guest / Albert Camus --
Babylon lottery / Jorge Luis Borges --
Old glory: Benito Cereno / Robert Lowell
Author:
The three volumes of Western Literature are intended to provide the student with a broad view of the literature of the Western world. The volume on the Ancient World contains some of the best representative examples of the Hebraic and Greco-Roman traditions and of the origins of Christian writing. — The second volume, covering the Mi... more », opens with a troubadour's lyric to a faraway love and ends with Voltaire's satire on complacent optimism. The third volume, devoted to the Modern World, traces the contemporary spirit from Rousseau to two current masters of the Americas.
Volume1: Ancient World --
General introduction / A Bartlett Giamatti --
Old Testament: Creation --
Fall of man --
Flood --
Book of Job --
Psalms 8, 22, 23, 137 --
Song of songs --
Iliad --
Odyssey / Homer --
History / Herodotus --
Agamemnon / Aeschylus --
History of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides --
Oedipus the king / Sophocles --
Bacchae / Euripides --
Lysistrata / Aristophanes --
Apology --
Phaedo / Plato --
Greek And Roman Poetry --
Works and days / Hesiod --
To Aphrodite --
To a girl --
Love / Sappho --
First Pythian ode: to Hieron / Pindar --
Harvest feast / Theocritus --
To Lesbia --
Invitation to love --
To Lesbia kind --
On her falsehood / Catullus --
Fourth eclogue / Virgil --
To Pyrrha / Horace --
Metamorphoses / Ovid --
On the nature of things / Lucretius --
Dream of Scipio / Cicero --
Aeneid / Virgil --
New Testament: Birth and youth of Christ --
Sermon on the mount --
Parables of Jesus --
Christ's betrayal, denial, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection --
Saul's conversion --
Revelation --
Satyricon / Petronius --
Annals / Tacitus --
Confessions / St Augustine. Volume 2: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment --
General introduction / A Bartlett Giamatti --
Medieval And Renaissance Love Lyrics --
Poem / Jaufre Rudel --
Ballata X / Guido Cavalcanti --
Sonnet / Dante Alighieri --
Sonnet 3 --
Sonnet 364 / Francesco Petrarch --
Ballade of the ladies of time past / Francois Villon --
Poem / Clement Marot --
Who so list to hunt / Sir Thomas Wyatt --
Sonnet / Pierre de Ronsard --
Sonnet / Sir Philip Sidney --
Sonnet 9 / Edmund Spenser --
Sonnet 73 --
Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare --
Three Poems Of Passionate Shepherds --
Passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe --
Nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh --
Bait / John Donne --
Valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne --
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvel --
Inferno / Dante Alighieri --
Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio --
Canterbury Tales / General prologue / Nun's priest tale / Pardoner's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Gargantua and Pantagruel / Francois Rabelais --
Othello / William Shakerspeare --
Don Quixote / Miguel Cervantes --
Misanthrope / Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) --
Paradise Lost / John Milton --
Gulliver's travels, book four / Jonathan Swift --
Candide / Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet). Volume 3: Modern World --
General introduction / A Bartlett Giamatti --
Reveries of a solitary / Jean-Jacques Rousseau --
Faust, part 1 / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --
Selected Poems Of William Wordsworth --
Tintern Abbey --
Simplon pass --
Slumber did my spirit seal --
Composed upon Westminster Bridge --
Solitary reaper --
Immortality ode --
Romantic Poetry --
Mock on, mock on / William Blake --
Promethus / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
When I have fears --
Ode to a nightingale --
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats --
Ode to the west wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
To the Parcae / Friedrich Holderlin --
Shipwrecked / Heinrich Heine --
Mors / Victor Hugo --
Infinite / Giacomo Leopardi --
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Pent-up aching rivers / Walt Whitman --
Facino Cane / Honore de Balzac --
Diary of a madman / Nikolai Gogol --
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Simple heart / Gustave Flaubert --
Dream of a ridiculous man / Fydor Dostoevksy --
Real thing / Henry James --
Master builder / Henrik Ibsen --
Malaria / Giovanni Verga --
Tristan / Thomas Mann --
Selected Poems Of William Butler Yeats --
No second Troy --
Sailing to Byzantium --
Leda and the swan --
Among school children --
Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop --
Acre of grass --
Symbolist And Modernist Poetry --
Spleen / Charles Baudelaire --
Dawn / Arthur Rimbaud --
Le Cygne / Stephane Mallarme --
After great pain, a formal feeling comes / Emily Dickinson --
Portrait d'une femme / Ezra Pound --
Love song of J Alfre Prufrock / T S Eliot --
Self-portrait / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Twelve / Alexander Blok --
Casida of flight / Federico Garcia Lorca --
Sunflower / Eugenio Montale --
Final soliloquy of the interior paramour / Wallace Stevens --
Araby / James Joyce --
Tickets, please / D H Lawrence --
Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello --
Return of the prodigal son / Andre Gide --
Hunger artist / Franz Kafka --
Clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --
Guest / Albert Camus --
Babylon lottery / Jorge Luis Borges --
Old glory: Benito Cereno / Robert Lowell
ISBN-13: 9780155952768
ISBN-10: 0155952765
Publication Date: 1971
Pages: 550
Rating: ?
ISBN-10: 0155952765
Publication Date: 1971
Pages: 550
Rating: ?
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Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Classics
- Literature & Fiction >> Ancient & Medieval Literature >> Ancient & Classical
