Research Catalog

Title

Writers of the Western World, edited by Addison Hibbard.

Author

Hibbard, Addison, 1887-1945

Publication

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1967.

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Details

Additional Authors

Frenz, Horst, 1912-1990

Description

xxii, 1239 pages illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Literature > Collections
• Literature > History and criticism
• anthologies
• Literature

Genre/Form

• Literature
• Collections
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Literature.
• Littérature.

Note

• 1967 impression with additions and revisions.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• The temper of classicism -- Homer (c. ninth century B.C.) / The Iliad, books I, III, VI, XVIII -- The Odyssey, books VI, IX, XXI, XXII -- The Bible / The creation of the world (Genesis) -- The story of Joseph and his brethren (Genesis) -- The giving of the law (Exodus) -- The story of Samson (Judges) -- Ruth (Ruth) -- The sermon on the mount (Matthew) -- Æschylus (525-456 B.C.) / Agamemnon -- Sophocles (495-405 B.C.) / Antigone -- Euripides (484-407 B.C.) / Medea -- Aristophanes (448-385 B.C.) / The frogs -- Plato (429-347 B.C.) / Dialogues: The apology -- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) / The nature of tragedy -- Theocritus (f. 270 B.C.) / Epigrams: For a herdsman's offering; For a picture; Daphnis and Menalcas; At the festival of Adonis; The cyclops in love -- Lucretius (98-55 B.C.) / On the nature of things: Proem; Substance is eternal; The soul is mortal; Folly of the fear of death; The origin of life; Origin of mankind; Beginnings of civilization -- Virgil (70-19 B.C.) / The Ænedi, books II, IV, VI -- Horace (65-8 B.C.) / Alphius -- To Lycè -- The reconciliation -- Contentment -- The bore -- My prayers with this I used to charge -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) / Meditations -- Lucian (c. 125-c. 200) / Dialogues of the dead: Dialogue X-Charon and Hermes -- Dialogues of the Gods: Dialogue XX-The judgment of Paris -- Sale of creeds -- Michael Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) / The author to the reader -- That we taste nothing pure -- Of commerce with books -- Of the inconvenience of greatness -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) / Hymn to Diana -- Song: to Celia -- To the memory of my beloved master, William Shakespeare -- A song -- Her triumph -- John Milton (1608-1674) / L'allegro -- Il Penseroso -- Lycides -- Sonnets: On his being arrived to the age of twenty-three; On his blindness; On Shakespeare -- Paradise Lost (books I and II) -- Molière (1622-1673) / The misanthrope -- Jean Racine (1639-1699) / Phædra -- Johnathan Swift (1667-1745) / from Gulliver's Travels: a voyage to Laputa -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) / An essay on criticism -- The rape of the lock -- Voltaire (1694-1778) / Selections from Candide -- The Romantic mood -- The Romantics -- Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 17 / Metamorphoses: Apollo and Daphne; Alpheus and Arethusa; Orpheus and Eurydice; Narcissus; The rape of Proserpine -- Heroides: Dido to Æneas -- Apuleius (f. 160) / from The Golden Ass: The robbers; Cupid and Psyche -- / from the Beowulf (seventh century) -- / From the Nibelungenlied (c. 1200): How Gunther fared to Isenland for Brunhild; How Gunther won Brunhild; How Siegfried was slain -- / Aucassin and Nicolete (twelfth century) -- / English popular ballads: Edward; Lord Thomas and fair Annet; Lamkin; The twa corbies; Sir Patrick Spence; The dæmon lover; Robin Hood's death and burial; Bonny Barbara Allan -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) / from The Divine Comedy: Hell (Cantos I-II-III-IV-V); Purgatory (Cantos I-II-III-IV); Paradise (Cantos XXXI-XXXII-XXXIII) -- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) / from The Decameron: Introduction; Simona and Pasquino; Fererigo's falcon; Patient Griselda -- François Rabelais (1495-1553) / from Gargantua: The author's prologue; The study of Gargantua -- old plan; The study of Gargantua -- new plan; Great strife and debate; How a monk of Sevillé saved the abbey; How Pantagruel persuadeth Panurge to take counsel of a fool -- Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)(1547-1616) / from Don Quixote: The quality and way of living of Don Quixote; Of Don Quixote's first sally; Don Quixote is dubbed a knight; The adventure of the windmills -- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) / A letter of the authors -- from The Faerie Queene: Legend of the knight of the Red Crosse -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) / Songs from the plays: When icicles hang by the wall; Who is Silvia?; Under the greenwood tree; Blow, blow, thou winter wind!; O mistress mine, where are you roaming?; Take, O, take those lips away; Hark, hark! the lark; Fear no more the heat o' the sun; Full fathom five thy father lies -- Sonnets: When I consider everything that grows; Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?; As an unperfect actor on the stage; When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes; When to the sessions of sweet silent thought; If thou survive my well-contented day; O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem; Not marble, nor the gilded monuments; When I have seen by time's fell hand defaced; Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea; That time of year thou mayst in me behold; How like a winter hath my absence been; To me, fair friend, you never can be old; When in the chronicle of wasted time; Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul; O, never say that I was false of heart; Let me not to the marriage of true minds; My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun -- King Lear.
• Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) / A discourse on the origin of inequality -- from Confessions: The stolen ribbon; A day's excursion; Life at Les Charmettes; Rousseau's opera is presented -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) / from Faust: Prologue in heaven; Faust -- part I -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) / To a mouse -- Tam o' shanter -- Green grow the rashes, O -- Of a' the airts -- Auld Lang Syne -- John Anderson my Jo -- Willie brewed a peck o' maut -- Ye flowery banks -- A red, red rose -- Scots, wha hae -- Highland Mary -- Is there for honest poverty -- O, wert thou in the cauld blast -- Mary Morison -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) / Expostulation and reply -- The tables turned -- Lines composed above Tintern Abbey -- My heart leaps up -- To the cuckoo -- Sonnets: Composed upon Westminster Bridge; It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; London, 1802; The world is too much with us -- The solitary reaper -- I wandered lonely as a cloud -- Ode to duty -- Ode on intimations of immortality -- Preface to lyrical ballads -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) / Kubla Khan -- Christabel -- from Biographia Literaria: chapters XVII and XVIII -- Lord (George Gordon) Byron (1788-1824) / Maid of Athens, ere we part -- Sonnet on Chillon -- She walks in beauty -- When we two parted -- from Childe Harold: Solitude; Rome -- and the vanity of human wishes; So we'll go no more a-roving -- from Don Juan: The lake poets -- and others; The Isles of Greece -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) / Hymn to intellectual beauty -- Ode to the west wind -- To a skylark -- Ozymandias -- Mutability -- Adonais -- To- -- from Prometheus Unbound: The future of society; The ability of man; The goal reached -- John Keats (1795-1821) / On first looking into Chapman's Homer -- Proem (from Endymion) -- When I have fears that I may cease to be -- Robin Hood -- Lines on the Mermaid Tavern -- The eve of St. Agnes -- Ode on a Grecian urn -- Ode to a nightingale -- La belle dam sans merci -- Fame -- Lamia -- Sonnet -- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) / The mountain echo -- The grenadiers -- Whene'er I look into thine eyes -- A pine tree stands so lonely -- I do not know why this confronts me -- Oh lovely fishermaiden -- The yellow moon has risen -- Child, you are like a flower -- Life in this world -- Where is now your precious darling? -- Doctrine -- Night has come -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) / from Les Misérables: The escape through the sewers -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) / Written in Naples -- Written at Rome -- The rhodora -- Each and all -- The sphinx -- Musketaquid -- Days -- Brahma -- The American scholar -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) / Young Goodman Brown -- Ethan Brand -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) / Morte d'Arthur -- Ulysses -- Break, break, break -- Songs (from The Princess) -- from In Memoriam A.H.H. -- The brook -- The higher pantheism -- The revenge, a ballad of the fleet -- Crossing the bar -- Robert Browning (1812-1889) / A grammarian's funeral -- Pippa's song -- My last duchess -- Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister -- The lost leader -- Meeting at night -- Parting at morning -- Home-thoughts, from abroad -- Home-thoughts, from the sea -- The Bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's Church -- Evelyn Hope -- Love among the ruins -- Fra lippo lippi -- Andrea del Sarto -- Prospice -- Epilogue to Asolando -- The Symbolists -- The Bible / The Lord is my shepherd (Psalm xxiii) -- God is our refuge (Psalm xlvi) -- John Donne (1573-1631) / The anniversary -- The good-morrow -- Song -- The sun rising -- Woman's constancy -- The undertaking -- The canonization -- The legacy -- A valediction: forbidding mourning -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) / The city in the sea -- The valley of unrest -- The haunted palace -- The conqueror worm -- The raven -- Ulalume -- The bells -- Eldorado -- The masque of the red death -- Eleonora -- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) / L'invitation au voyage -- Anywhere out of the world -- The clock -- The plaything of the poor -- Every man his Chimæra -- The sadness of the moon -- Correspondences -- The flask -- The seven old men -- The death of the poor -- A landscape -- Exotic fragrance -- Music -- The flawed bell.
• Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) / The master builder -- "Les Symbolistes" -- Paul Verlaine / Il pleut doucement sur la ville -- À Clymène -- Henri de Régnier / The vase -- Arthur Rimbaud / The frenzied ship -- Stéphane Mallarmé / The windows -- Sea-wind -- L'après-midi d'un faune -- Henri Bataille / Memories -- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam / Vox populi -- Joris-Karl Huysmans / Camaïeu in red -- Stéphane Mallarmé / In autumn -- Henri de Régnier / The stairway -- Saint-Pol-Roux / Butterflies -- The Realistic Temper -- The Realists -- Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) / from The Canterbury Tales: The prologue; The nun's priest's tale; The pardoner's tale -- The complaint of Chaucer to his purse -- DanieL Defoe (1660-1731) / A true relation of the apparition of Mrs. Veal -- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) / Selection from Old Goriot -- Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852) / The cloak -- Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) / Mumu -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) / One's-self I sing -- On journeys through the states -- The song of the open road -- Crossing Brooklyn ferry -- I hear America singing -- Pioneers! O pioneers! -- O captain! My captain! -- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd -- Come up from the fields father -- To a locomotive in winter -- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) / from Crime and Punishment: The crime -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) / from Anna Karenina: Farming in old Russia; The steeplechase; Anna visits her son; Levin finds his faith -- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) / The schoolmistress -- The cherry orchard -- Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) / The jar -- Thomas Mann (1875- ) / The infant prodigy -- from The Magic Mountain: Snow -- Ernest Hemingway (1898- ) / The undefeated -- William Faulkner (1897- ) / A name for the city -- The Naturalists -- Émile Zola (1840-1902) / from L'Assommoir: The fight in the laundry -- Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) / Chums -- The Impressionists -- The Bible / What is man? (Psalm viii) -- The voice of the Lord (Psalm xxix) -- How amiable are thy tabernacles (Psalm lxxxiv) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- The liar -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) / The lagoon -- Paul Claudel (1868- ) / Selections from The Satin Slipper -- Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) / The voyage -- The Expressionists -- James Joyce (1882-1941) / from Ulysses: The interment of Patrick Dignam -- Franz Kafka (1883-1924) / First sorrow -- A hunger artist -- Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) / The hairy ape -- T.S. Eliot (1888- ) / Sweeney among the nightingales -- Rhapsody on a windy night -- The hollow men.

LCCN

67006008

OCLC

• ocm01129336
• 1129336
• SCSB-198573

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library