Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces Vol.2(诺顿英国文学选读)

Offering a splendid collection of literary masterpieces in the best available translations, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is a literal library of Western literature in two portable volumes. Most major works, from Homer's Odyssey to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, are offered complete or in substantial, readable excerpts. New authors and works abound, including pieces by Plautus, Lucian, Ariosto, de Vega, Shakespeare, Joyce, O'Connor, Munro, and Silko, and new sections of Medieval lyrics and tales, Romantic poetry in translation, and Dada-Surrealist poetry. Informative period introductions and author headnotes guide readers through the cultural and historical contexts surrounding the literature.

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Offering a splendid collection of literary masterpieces in the best available translations, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is a literal library of Western literature in two portable volumes. Most major works, from Homer's Odyssey to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, are offered complete or in substantial, readable excerpts. New authors and works abound, including pieces by Plautus, Lucian, Ariosto, de Vega, Shakespeare, Joyce, O'Connor, Munro, and Silko, and new sections of Medieval lyrics and tales, Romantic poetry in translation, and Dada-Surrealist poetry. Informative period introductions and author headnotes guide readers through the cultural and historical contexts surrounding the literature.

PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHONETIC EQUIVALENTS
Masterpieces of the Enlightenment
MAP: EUROPE, CA. 1740
　INTRODUCTION
　TIMELINE
　JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE (1622-1673)
　Tartuffe (French)
　 (Translated by Richard Wilbur)
　MARIE DE LA VERGNE DE LA FAYETTEE (1634-1693)
　The Princess of Clbves (French)
(Translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry)
　JEAN RACINE (1639-1699)
　Phaedra (French)
　 (Translated by Richard Wilbur)
　SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695)
Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz (Spanish)
　 (Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
　JONATHAN SWIFT (1677-1745)
　 Gulliver's Travels
Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
A Modest Proposal
　(Edited by Herbert Davis)
　ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
The Rape of the Lock
(Text and notes by Samuel Holt Monk)
An Essay on Man
　Epistle I
　FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778) Candide, or Optimism (French)
　 (Translated and with notes by Robert M. Adams)
　SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)
　 From The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Varieties of Romanticism
　MAP: EUROPE, AND EASTERN AMERICA, CA. 1866
　INTRODUCTION
　TIMELINE
　JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)
Confessions (French)
From Part I
　JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832)
Faust (German)
　 Prologue in Heaven
The First Part of the Tragedy
　 (Translated by Walter Kauffmann)
　WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
　 Songs of Innocence
　 Introduction
　 The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
Holy Thursday
　 The Chimney Sweeper
　 Songs of Experience
Introduction
Earth's Answer
The Tyger
The Sick Rose
London
　 The Chimney Sweeper
　Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
　 And Did Those Feet
　WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770--1850)
　Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
　 Ode on Intimations of Immortality
　 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
　 The World Is Too Much with Us
　DOROTHY WORDSWORTH ( 1771-1855 )
　　From The Grasmere Journals
　　SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
　 Kubla Khan
Dejection: An Ode
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