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Foreword | |
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Introduction | |
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Introduction | |
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Poets of the Bronze and Iron Ages (2200-250 B.C.) | |
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Sumer and the Ancient Near East: Poetry in Akkadian, Old Babylonian, and Assyrian; Egypt; Poetry from the Hebrew Bible; Archaic Greek Poetry and the Homeric Tradition | |
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India: The Vedas to the Bhagavad-Gita | |
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China: The Chou Dynasty and the Warring States Period | |
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The Classical Empires, East and West (750 B.C.-A.D. 500) | |
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Greek Poetry: From the Lyric Age Through the Hellenistic Period | |
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Latin Poetry: From its Origins Through the Late Roman Empire | |
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India: The Mauryan Dynasty and the Dravidian Kingdoms | |
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The Postclassical World (A.D. 250-1200) | |
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India: The Golden Age of Courtly Verse | |
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China: Three Kingdoms Period Through the T'ang Dynasty; Korea: Early Poetry in the Chinese Style | |
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Japan: From the Earliest Verse Through the Heian Period | |
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Arabia: From Pre-Islamic Verse Through the Eleventh Century | |
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Medieval Latin Poetry, Fourth Through Twelfth Centuries | |
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Poetry in Celtic Languages | |
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Anglo-Saxon Poetry | |
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The Rise of the Vernacular (950-1450) | |
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Northern Europe: Icelandic Saga, Finnish, the Norse Languages, and the German Minnesingers | |
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Southern Europe: French National Epic; Lyric Poetry in French, Provencal, Spanish, Galicio-Portuguese, and Italian | |
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The Beginnings of Slavic Poetry; Byzantine Greek Verse | |
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Medieval Verse from the British Isles | |
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Hebrew and Arabic Verse from Andalusian Spain and the Middle East; The Golden Age of Persian Poetry | |
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Poetry from Inner Asia | |
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China: The Sung and Yuan Dynasties | |
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Japan: The Kamakura and Early Muromachi Periods | |
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Korea: The Koryo Dynasty | |
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Early Vietnamese Poetry | |
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India: Secular and Sacred Lyric Verse | |
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Mayan Poetry: the Popol Vuh | |
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The Renaissance in Europe; Late Traditional Verse from the Americas, South Asia, and East Asia (1350-1625) | |
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English Poetry: Chaucer Through Spenser and Shakespeare | |
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Lyric Verse from Continental Europe | |
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Mesoamerican and Andean Poetry | |
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India: Devotional Verse | |
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East Asia: Ming China; Choson Korea; Vietnam; Muromachi Japan | |
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The Seventeenth Century (1600-1700) | |
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England: Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry | |
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Poetry in the Celtic Languages of Scotland and Ireland | |
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The Baroque in Northern Europe | |
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Poetry in Romance Languages | |
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Central Europe: Polish and Finnish | |
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The Ottoman Empire and the Balkans | |
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India: Late Traditional Secular and Sacred Verse | |
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East Asian Verse: Early Ch'ing Dynasty China; Tibet; Middle Choson Korea; Early Edo Japan | |
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From the Eighteenth Century into the Early Twentieth Century (1700-1915) | |
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English-Language Poetry from England, Ireland and America from the Augustans Through the Victorian Age; Late Traditional Verse in Irish Gaelic | |
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Western and Southern Europe: The Romantic Era to the Symbolists | |
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Central Europe and Russia | |
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Persia and the Indian Subcontinent | |
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East Asian Poetry: Revivals and Innovations | |
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Southeast Asia: New Vernacular Traditions | |
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The Pacific Islands | |
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Native American Poetry | |
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Africa: Poetry | |
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The Twentieth Century (1915- ) | |
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Poetry in the Languages of Continental Europe | |
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Poetry in Non-European Languages; Poetry in English and French from Non-European Cultures | |
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Modern Poetry in English | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index of Poets and Translators | |
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Index of Titles | |