Includes index.

v. 1. Literature of Western culture through the Renaissance -- v. 2. Literature of Western culture since the Renaissance. Preface to the Sixth Edition - Acknowledgments - MASTERPIECES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - Introduction - The Epic of Gilgamesh / translated by N.K. Sandars - The Old Testament - Genesis 1-3 (The Creation--The Fall) - Genesis 4 (The First Murder) - Genesis 6-9 (The Flood) - Genesis 11 (The Origin of Languages) - Genesis 37-46 (The Story of Joseph) - from Job - Psalm 8 - Psalm 19 - Psalm 23 - Psalm 104 - Psalm 137 - Isaiah 52-53 (The Song of the Suffering Servant) - Jonah / The King James Version - HOMER - The Iliad - Book I The Rage of Achilles - from Book VlI Hector Returns to Troy - from Book VIII The Tide of Battle Turns - Book IX The Embassy to Achilles - Book XVIII The Shield of Achilles - Book XIX The Champion Arms for Battle - Book XXII The Death of Hector - Book XXIV Achilles and Priam / translated by Robert Fagles - The Odyssey - Book I A Goddess Intervenes - Book II A Hero's Sun Awakens - Book III The Lord of the Western Approaches - Book IV The Red-Haired King and His Lady - Book V Sweet Nymph and Open Sea - Book VI The Princess at the River - Book VII Gardens and Firelight - Book VIII The Songs of the Harper - Book IX New Coasts and Poseidon's Son - Book X The Grace of the Witch - Book XI A Gathering of Shades - Book XII Sea Perils and Defeat - Book XIII One More Strange Island - Book XIV Hospitality in the Forest - Book XV How They Came to Ithaca - Book XVI Father and Son - Book XVII The Beggar at the Manor - Book XVIII Blows and a Queen's Beauty - Book XIX Recognitions and a Dream - Book XX Signs and a Vision - Book XXI The Test of the Bow - Book XXII Death in the Great Hall - Book XXIII The Trunk of the Olive Tree - Book XXIV Warriors, Farewell / translated by Robert Fitzgerald - SAPPHO OF LESBOS - "Throned in splendor, deathless, O Aphrodite" - "Like the very gods in my sight is he ..." - "Some there are who say that the fairest things seen" / translated by Richmond Latimore - AESCHYLUS - The Orestia: Agamemnon - The Orestia: The Libation Bearers - The Orestia: The Eumenides / translated by Robert Fagles - SOPHOCLES - Oedipus the King - Antigone / translated by Robert Fagles - EURIPEDES - Medea / translated by Rex Warner - ARISTOPHANES - Lysistrata / translated by Charles T. Murphy - PLATO - The Apology of Socrates - from Phaedo (The Death of Socrates) / translated by Benjamin Jowett - ARISTOTLE - from Poetics / translated by James Hutton - CATULLUS - "Come, Lesbia, let us live and love" - "There are many who think of Quintia ..." - "No woman, if she is honest, can say ..." - "When at last after long despair ..." - "My life, my love, you say our love will last forever" - "Lesbia speaks evil of me ..." - "My woman says that she would rather wear the wedding-veil for me" - "There was a time, O Lesbia ..." - "Were you born of a lioness ..." - "I hate and love" - "You are the cause of this destruction, Lesbia" - "Poor damned Catullus, here's no time for nonsense." "Caelius, my Lesbia, that one, that only Lesbia" - "Furius, Aurelius, bound to Catullus" - "If man can find rich consolation ..." / translated by Horace Gregory - VIRGIL - The Aeneid - from Book I(Aeneas Arrives in Carthage) - Book II How They Took the City - Book IV The Passion of the Queen - from Book VI (Aeneas in the Underworld) - from Book VIII (The Shield of Aeneas) - from Book XII (The Death of Turnus) / translated by Robert Fitzgerald - OVID - Metamorphoses - Book I - The Creation - The Four Ages - Jove's Intervention - The Story of Lycaon - The Flood - Deucalion and Pyrrha - Apollo and Daphne - Jove and Io - Book XV - The Teachings of Pythagoras / translated by Rolph Humphries - THE NEW TESTAMENT - Luke 2 (The Birth and Youth of Jesus) - Matthew 5-7 (The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount) - Luke 15 (The Teaching of Jesus: Parables) - Matthew 26 (The Betrayal of Jesus) - Matthew 27 (The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus) - Matthew 28 (The Resurrection) / The King James Version - PETRONIUS - The Satyricon - Dinner with Trimalchio / translated by J.P. Sullivan - ST. AUGUSTINE - Confessions - from Book I (Childhood) - from Book II (The Pear Tree) - from Book III (The Student at Carthage) - from Book VI (Worldly Ambitions) - from Book VIII (Conversion) - from Book IX (Death of His Mother) / translated by F.J. Sheed - MASTERPIECES OF THE MIDDLE AGES - Introduction - from The Koran - Sura 1 The Exordium - Sura 4 Women - Sura 5 The Table - Sura 10 Jonah - Sura 12 Joseph - Sura 19 Mary - Sura 55 The Merciful - Sura 62 Friday, or the Day of Congregation - Sura 71 Noah - Sura 76 Man / translated by N.J Dawood - Beowulf / translated by Burton Raffel - The Wanderer / translated by Charles W. Kennedy - The Story of Deirdre / translated by Jeffrey Gantz - The Song of the Seeress / translated by Paul B. Taylor and W.H. Auden -Thorstein the Staff-Struck / translated by Hermann Palsson - from The Song of Roland / translated by Frederick Goldin - MARIE DE FRANCE - Eliduc / translated by John Fowles - Aucassin and Nicolette / translated by Glyn S. Burgess - Medieval Latin Lyric Poetry - Boethius - Saint Venantius Fortunatus - Alcuin - Sedulius - Scottus - Mss. Of Salzburg, Canterbury, and Limoges - Pierre Abelard - The Archpoet - from Carmina Burana - Thomas Aquinas - DANT ALIGHIERI - The Divine Comedy - Inferno - from Purgatorio - from Paradiso / translated by John Ciardi - GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO - The Decameron - The First Day - The Second Tale of the Fourth Day - The Ninth Tale of the Fifth Day / translated by Mark Musa and Peter E. Bondanella - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / translated by Marie Borroff - GEOFFREY CHAUCER - The Canterbury Tales - General Prologue - Prologue to the Miller's Tale - The Miller's Tale - Prologue to the Pardoner's Tale - The Pardoner's Tale - (The Knight's Interruption of the Monk's Tale) - The Nun's Priest's Tale / translated by Theodore Morrison -- FRANCOIS VILLON - Ballade - from The Testament / translated by Galway Kinnell - Everyman / text by E. Talbot Donaldson - MASTERPIECES OF THE RENAISSANCE - Introduction - FRANCIS PETRARCH - Letter to Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro (The Ascent of Mount Ventoux) / translated by James H. Robinson and Henry W. Rolfe -- Sonnet 3: It Was the Morning - Sonnet 61: Blest Be the Day / translated by Joseph Auslander - Sonnet 62: Father in Heaven / translated by Vernard Bergonzi - Sonnet 90: She Used to Let Her Golden Hair Fly Free / translated by Morris Biship - Sonnet 292: The Eyes That Drew from Me - Sonnet 300: Great Is My Envy of You / translated by Edwin Morgan - Sonnet 333: Go, Grieving Rimes of Mine / translated by Morris Bishop -. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS - The Praise of Folly - Part I. Folly Herself - Part II. The Powers and Pleasures of Folly - Part IV. The Christian Fool / translated by Leonard F. Dean - NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI - Letter to Francesco Vettori ("That Food Which Alone Is Mine") - The Prince - (Princely Virtues) - ("Fortune Is a Woman") - (The Roman Dream) / translated by Allan H. Gilbert - BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE - The Book of the Courtier - (The Setting) - ("Everything He May Do or Say Shall Be Stamped with Grace") / translated by Leonard E. Opdycke - MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE - The Heptameron - Story Three - Story Thirty - Story Forty / translated by P.A.

Chilton - FRANCOIS RABELAIS - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I - (Education of a Giant Humanist) - (The Abbey of Theleme) - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II - (Pantagruel: Birth and Education) - (Father's Letter from Home) - (Adventures of Panurge) / translated by Burton Raffel - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE - Essays - Of Cannibals - Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions - from Apology for Raymond Sebond - Of Repentance / translated by Donald Frame - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES - Don Quixote, Part I - ("I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose") - (Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan) - (Of Goatherds, Roaming Shepherdesses, and Unrequited Loves) - (Fighting the Sheep) - ("To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched") - ("Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady ... ") - Don Quixote, Part II - ("Put Into a Book") - (A Victorious Duel) - ("For I Well Know the Meaning of Valor") - (Last Duel) - (Homecoming and Death) / translated by Samuel Putnam - CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE - The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus / translated by Hallett Smith - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - JOHN DONNE - The Good-Morrow - Song ("Go and catch a falling star") - The Indifferent - The Canonization - The Apparition - The Funeral - Holy Sonnets - Sonnet 7: "At the round earth's imagined corners, blow" - Sonnet 10: "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee" - PEDRO CALDERON DE LE BARCA - Life Is a Dream / translated by Roy Campbell - JOHN MILTON - Paradise Lost - from Book I. ("This Great Argument") - Book IX. (Temptation and Fall) - from Book X. (Acceptance, Reconciliation, Hope) - from Book XII. ("The World Was All Before Them") - A Note on Translation - Index.