Neoclassicism and Romanticism i // Introduction i // Moliere 18 (1622-1673) // Tartuffe—Translated by Richard Wilbur 21 // Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné 69 (1626-161)6) // from Letters—Translated by Leonard Tancoch 73 // Marie de La Verone de La Fayette 103 (1634-1693) // The Princesse de Clčves—Translated by Nancy Milford and revised by Leonard Tancoch 107 // Jean Racine 200 (1639-1699) // Phaedra—Translated by John Caimcross 203 // Jonathan Swift 244 (1667-1743) // from Gulliver’s Travels 248 // Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms 249 // A Modest Proposal 302 // Alexander Pope 308 (1688—1744) // The Rape of the Lock 312 // from An F.ssay on Man 330 // Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 344 // Voltaire 357 (1694-1778) // Candide—Translated by Tobias Smollett and revised by J. C. Thornton 360 // xvi Contents // Jean-Jacques Rousseau 429 (1712-1778) // from Confessions 434 // Book I 434 // Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 463 (1749-1832) // The Sorrows of Young Werther—Translated by William Rose 467 // William Blake 534 (1737-1827) // Songs of Innocence and of Experience 539 // Songs of Innocence 539 // Introduction 539 // The Shepherd 540 // The Ecchoing Green 540 // The Lamb 541 // The Little Black Boy 542 // The Blossom 542 // The Chimney Sweeper 543 // The Little Boy Lost 544 // The Little Boy Found 544 // Laughing Song 544 // A Cradle Song 545 // The Divine Image 545 // Holy Thursday 546 // Night 546 // Spring 548 // Nurse’s Song 548 // Infant Joy 549 // A Dream 549 // On Anothers Sorrow 550 // Songs of Experience 551 // Introduction 551 // Earth ’s A nswer 5 51 // The Clod ifj the Pebble 552 // Holy Thursday 553 // The Little Girl Lost 553 // The Little Girl Found 555 // The Chimney Sweeper 556 // Nurses Song 556 // The Sick Rose 557 // The Fly 557 // The Angel 557 // The Tyger 558 // My Pretty Rose Tree 559 //
The Lilly 559 // The Garden of Love 560 // The Little Vagabond 560 // London 561 // The Human Abstract 561 // Infant Sorrow 562 // A Poison Tree 562 // A Little Boy Lost 563 // A Little Girl Lost 563 // To Tirzah 564 // The School Boy 565 // The Voice of the Ancient Bard 566 // A Divine Image 566 // The Book of Thel 567 // William Wordsworth 571 (1770-1850) // Anecdote for Fathers 575 // We Are Seven 577 // Expostulation and Reply 579 // The Tables Turned 580 // Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 581 // A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal 584 // Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 585 // It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free 585 // London,1802 585 // The World Is Too Much with Us 586 // I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 586 // The Solitary Reaper 587 // My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold 588 // Ode—Intimations of Immortality 588 // Samuel Taylor Coleridge 593 (1772-1834) // Dejection: An Ode 594 // Kubla Khan 598 // Jane Austen 599 (i775~l8l7) // Persuasion 605 // George Gordon, Lord Byron 749 (1788-1824) // The Vision of Judgment 754 // John Keats 778 (1795-1821) // On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 782 // The Eve of St. Agnes 783 // La Belle Dame Sans Merci 793 // To Sleep 794 // Ode to Psyche 795 // Ode to a Nightingale 797 // Ode on a Grecian Urn 799 // Ode on Melancholy 800 // To Autumn 801 // Honoré de Balzac 803 (1799-1850) // Colonel Chabert 806 // Alexander Pushkin 849 (1799-1837) // The Queen of Spades—Translated by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinov 853 // Alfred, Lord Tennyson 872 ( 1809—1892) // The Lotos-Eaters 876 // Ulysses 881 // Tithonus 883 // from In Memoriam A. H. H. 884 // Robert Browning 919 (1812-1889) // My Last Duchess 922 // The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church 923 // Andrea del Sarto 926 // Mikhail Lermontov 932 (1814-1841) // A Hero of Our Time—Translated by Martin Parker 935 // Walt Whitman 1035 (1819-1892) //
Song of Myself 1038 // When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 1084 // Herman Melville 1091 (1819-1891) // Bartleby the Scrivener // 109? // Contents // XIX // Emily Dickinson 1119 (1830-1886) // 67: Success is counted sweetest 1122 // 199: I’m “wife”—I’ve finished that— 1122 // 214: I taste a liquor never brewed— 1122 // 258: There’s a certain Slant of light 1123 // 280: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 1123 // 303: The Soul selects her own Society— 1124 // 327: Before I got my eye put out 1124 // 328: A Bird came down the Walk— 1125 // 401: What Soft—Cherubic Creatures— 1126 // 435: Much Madness is divinest Sense— 1126 465: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— 1126 // 470: I am alive—I guess— 1127 // 585: I like to see it lap the Miles— 1128 // 712: Because I could not stop for Death— 1128 // 764: Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the Lawn— tisg // 1129: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— 1129 // 1732: My life closed twice before its close— 1130 // Realism and Naturalism 1131 // Introduction 1131 // Gustave Flaubert 1137 (1821-1880) // A Simple Heart—Translated by Arthur McDowall 1140 // Fyodor Dostoevsky 1162 (1821-1881) // Notes from Underground—Translated by Constance Garnett 1166 // from The Brothers Karamazov 1240 // The Grand Inquisitor—Translated by Constance Garnett 1240 // Leo Tolstoy 1253 (1828-1910) // The Death of Ivan Ilyitch—Translated by Constance Garnett 1256 // Henrik Ibsen 1298 (1828—1906) // A Doll House—Translated by Rolf Fjelde 1302 // Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 1352 (1839-1908) // Dona Paula—Translated by Jack Schmitt and Lone Ishimatsu 1354 // XX Contents // Kate Chopin 1361 (1851-1904) // The Awakening // Anton Chekhov 1458 (1860—1904) // Gooseberries—Translated by Constance Garnett 1461 // The Cherry Orchard—Translated by Constance Garnett 1469 //
Moderns and Contemporaries 1507 // Introduction 1507 // French Symbolist and Modernist Poetry 1517 (c. 1840—0. 1920) // Charles Baudelaire (1821-186’]) // To the Reader—Translated by Stanley Kunitz 1520 // The Albatross—Translated by Richard Howard 1521 // Correspondences—Translated by Kate Flores 1522 // The Head of Hair—Translated by Richard Howard 1522 // Carrion—Translated by Richard Howard 1523 // Music—Translated by Robert Fitzgerald 1525 // The Cracked Bell—Translated by Vernon Watkins 1525 // Spleen (IV)—Translated by Richard Howard 1526 // Heauton Timoroumenos—Translated by Richard Howard t526 // Parisian Dream—Translated by Richard Howard 1527 // A Voyage to Cythera—Translated by Richard Howard 1529 // Travelers—Translated by Richard Howard 1531 // Scrutiny at Midnight—Translated by Richard Howard I535 // Tristan Corričre (1845-1875) // Oh! That?—Translated by C. F. MacIntyre 1536 // Paris by Night—Translated by C. F. MacIntyre 1537 // Paris by Day—Translated by C. F. MacIntyre 1538 // The End—Translated by Kate Flores 1538 // Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) // My Familiar Dream—Translated by C. F. MacIntyre I540 // Song of the Ingenues—Translated by C. F. MacIntyre 1540 // Sentimental Conversation—Translated by C. F. MacIntyre 1541 // The White Moon—Translated by Kate Flores 1542 // Songs Without Words, VIII—Translated by C. F. MacIntyre 1542 // Contents // Wisdom, Book III: V—Translated by Brandon Witherspoon The Art of Poetry—Translated by C. F. MacIntyre // Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) // My Bohemia—Translated by Louise Varese The Drunken Boat—Translated by Stephen Stepanchev Vowels—Translated by Louise Varčse Lives—Translated by Angel Flores // Stephane Mallarmé (1842-1898) //
Windows—Translated by Daisy Aldan Sigh—Translated by Frederick Morgan The Azure—Translated by Kate Flores // Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) // Lament of the Organist of Notre-Dame de Nice—Translated by Vernon Watkins // For the Book of Love—Translated by Vernon Watkins The Approach of Winter—Translated by Joseph Bennett // Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) // The Mirabeau Bridge—Translated by W. S. Merwin // Annie—Translated by Dudley Fitts // White Snow—Translated by Dudley Fitts // Hills—Translated by Dudley Fitts // Company Commander—Translated by Dudley Fitts // The Pretty Redhead—Translated by Kate Flores // Paul Valéry (1871-1945) // Helen—Translated by Andrew Chiappe // The Bee—Translated by Lionel Abel // Song of the Columns—Translated by Vernon Watkins // Asides—Translated by William Jay Smith // Sigmund Freud 1569 (1856-1939) // The Case of Miss Lucy R.—Translated by A. A. Brill // Joseph Conrad 1578 (1857-1924) // Heart of Darkness // William Butler Yeats 1643 (1865-1939) // xxii // To Ireland in the Coming Times He Remembers Forgotten Beauty A Coat Easter 1916 // The Second Coming Sailing to Byzantium // Two Songs from a Play Leda and the Swan Among School Children Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop Lapis Lazuli // The Circus Animals’ Desertion Under Ben Bulben // Luigi Pirandello 1664 (1867-1936) // Six Characters in Search of an Author—Translated by Frederick May // Thomas Mann 1716 (1875-1933) // Disorder and Early Sorrow—Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter
// Araby The Dead // James Joyce 1742 (1882-1941) // Virginia Woolf 1780 ( 1882—1941) // The Mark on the Wall from A Room of One’s Own Shakespeare’s Sister // Franz Kafka 1800 (1883-1924) // The Metamorphosis—Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir // D. H. Lawrence 1836 (1885-1930) // Odour of Chrysanthemums The Horse Dealer’s Daughter // T. S. Eliot 1865 (1888—1965) // The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land from Four Quartets Burnt Norton // The Story of My Dovecot—Translated by Walter Morison 1896 // William Faulkner 1904 (1897-1962) // An Odor of Verbena 1907 // Bertolt Brecht 1927 (1898-1956) // The Good Woman of Setzuan—Translated by Eric Bentley 1930 // Federico García Lorca 1986 (1898-1956) // The House of Bernarda Alba—Translated by James Graham-Lujan and Richard L. O’Connell 1988 // Jean-Paul Sartre 2022 (1905-1980) // The Wall—Translated by Maria Jobs 2024 // Albert Camus 2038 (1915-1960) // The Adulterous Woman—Transbted by Justin O’Brien 2040 // Jorge Luis Borges 2051 (1899-1986) // I lon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius—Translated by James E. Irby 2054 // The Circular Ruins—Transbted by Norman Thomas di Giovanni in colbboration with the author 2065 // Samuel Beckett 2069 (1906— ) // Krapp’s Last Tape 2071 // Ralph Ellison 2078 (1914- ) // Battle Royal 2080 // Doris Lessing 2091 (1919- ) // The Antheap 2094 // James Baldwin 2133 (1924- ) // Sonny’s Blues 2135 // Gabriel García Marquez 2157 (1928- ) // Big Mama’s Funeral—Transbted by J. S. Bernstein 2161 // xxiv Contents // Adrienne Rich 2171 (1929- ) // Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers 2174 // Snapshots of a Daughter-in Law 2174 // The Burning of Paper Instead of Children 2178 // Diving into the Wreck 2181 // Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff 2183 // For Julia in Nebraska 2185 // from Contradictions: Tracking Poems 2188 // 1: Look: this January the worst onslaught 2188 //
1: Look: this January the worst onslaught 2188 // 9: Tearing but not yet torn: this paper 2188 // 10: Night over the great and the little worlds 2189 // 14: Lately in my dreams I hear long sentences 2189 // 17: I have backroads I take to places 2189 // 27: The Tolstoyans the Afro-American slaves 2190 // 28: This high summer we love will pour its light 2190 // 29: You who think I find words for everything 2191 // Milan Kundera 2191 (1929- ) // Nobody Will Laugh—Translated by Suzanne. Rappaport 2 >94 // Athol Fugard 2215 (1932- ) // “Master Harold” . . . and the boys 2218 // Joyce Carol Oates 2250 (1938- ) // Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood? 2255 // Peter Handke 2268 (1942- ) // A Sorrow Beyond Dreams—Translated by Ralph Manheim 2271 // Chronology 2305 // Index 2320