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Volume C: The Early Modern Period | |
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Vernacular Writing In South Asia | |
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Basavanna (1106- c. 1167) | |
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Like a monkey on a tree | |
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You can make them talk | |
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The crookedness of the serpent | |
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Before the grey reaches the check | |
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I don't know anything like time-beats and meter | |
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The rich will make temples for Siva | |
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Resonance | |
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Palkuriki Somanatha: from The Lore of Basavanna | |
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Mahadeviyakka (c. 1200) | |
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Other men are thorn | |
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Who cares | |
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Better than meeting | |
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Kabir (early 1400s) | |
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Saints, I see the world is mad | |
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Brother, where did your two gods come from? | |
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Pandit, look in your heart for knowledge | |
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When you die, what do you do with your body? | |
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It's a heavy confusion | |
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The road the pandits took | |
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Tukaram (1608-1649) | |
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I was only dreaming | |
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If only you would | |
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Have I utterly lost my hold on reality | |
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I scribble and cancel it again | |
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Where does one begin with you? | |
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Some of you may say | |
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To arrange words | |
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When my father died | |
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Born a Shudra, I have been a trader | |
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Kshetrayya (mid-17th century) | |
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A Woman to Her Lover | |
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A Young Woman to a Friend | |
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A Courtesan to Her Lover | |
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A Married Woman Speaks to Her Lover | |
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A Married Woman to Her Lover (1) | |
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A Married Woman to Her Lover (2) | |
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Wu Cheng'en (c. 1506-1581) from Journey to the West | |
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The Rise Of The Vernacular In Europe | |
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Attacking And Defending The Vernacular Bible | |
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Henry Knighton: from Chronicle | |
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Martin Luther: from On Translating: An Open Letter | |
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The King James Bible: from The Translators to the Reader | |
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Women And The Vernacular | |
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Dante Alighieri: from Letter to Can Grande della Scala | |
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Erasmus: from The Abbot and the Learned Lady | |
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Catherine of Siena: from Letter to Raymond of Capua | |
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Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz: from Response to "Sor Filotea" | |
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Early Modern Europe | |
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) | |
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Decameron | |
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Introduction | |
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First Day, Third Story (The Three Rings) | |
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Third Day, Tenth Story (Locking the Devil Up in Hell) | |
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Seventh Day, Fourth Story (The Woman Who Locked Her Husband Out) | |
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Tenth Day, Tenth Story (The Patient Griselda) | |
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Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549) | |
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Heptameron | |
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First Day, Story 5 (The Two Friars) | |
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Fourth Day, Story 32 (The Woman Who Drank from Her Lover's Skull) | |
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Fourth Day, Story 36 (The Husband Who Punished His Faithless Wife by Means of a Salad) | |
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Eighth Day, Prologue | |
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Eighth Day, Story 71 (The Wife Who Came Back from the Dead) | |
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Francis Petrach (1304-1374) | |
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Letters on Familiar Matters | |
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To Dionigi da Borgo San Sepolcro (On Climbing Mt. Ventoux) | |
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from To Boccaccio (On imitation) | |
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Resonance | |
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Laura Cereta: To Sister Deodata di Leno | |
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The Canzoniere | |
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During the Life of My Lady Laura | |
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"O you who hear within these scattered verses" | |
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"It was the day the sun's ray had turned pale" | |
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"The old man takes his leave, white-haired and pale" | |
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"Alone and deep in thought I measure out" | |
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"She'd let her gold hair flow free in the breeze" | |
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"Clear, cool, sweet running waters" | |
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"From day to day my face and hair are changing" | |
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After the Death of My Lady Laura | |
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"O God! That lovely face, that gentle look" | |
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"If Love does not give me some new advice" | |
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"When I see coming down the sky Aurora" | |
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"That nightingale so tenderly lamenting" | |
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Resonance | |
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Virgil: from Fourth Georgic | |
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"O lovely little bird singing away" | |
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"I go my way lamenting those past times" | |
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from 366 "Virgin, so lovely, clothed in the sun's light" | |
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Resonances: Petrarch and His Translators | |
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Petrarch: Canzoniere 190 | |
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Thoman Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt | |
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Petrarch: Canzoniere 209 | |
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Chiara Matraini: Fera son io di questo ambroso loco | |
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Chiara Matraini: I am a wild deer in this shady wood | |
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Translations: Petrach's Canzoniere 52 "Diana never pleased her lover more" | |
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Perspectives: Lyric Sequences and Self-Definition | |
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Louise Lab� (c. 1520-1566) | |
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When I behold you | |
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Lute, companion of my wretched state | |
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Kiss me again | |
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Alas, what boots it that not long ago | |
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Do not reproach me, Ladies | |
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Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) | |
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This comes of dangling from the ceiling | |
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My Lord, in your most gracious face(trans. | |
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I wish to want, Lord | |
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No block of marble | |
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How chances it, my Lady | |
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Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547) | |
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Between harsh rocks and violent wind | |
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Whatever life I once had | |
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
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"From fairest creatures we desire increase" | |
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"Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest" | |
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"Who will believe my verse in time to come" | |
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"Not marble nor the gilded monuments" | |
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"That time of year thou mayst in me behold" | |
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"Farewell: thou art too dear for my possessing" | |
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"Let me not to the marriage of true minds" | |
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"O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power" | |
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"In the old age black was not counted fair" | |
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"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" | |
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Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) | |
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Laments | |
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"Come, Heraclitus and Simonides" | |
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"Dear little Slavic Sappho, we had thought" | |
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"My dear delight, my Ursula and where" | |
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"Where are those gates through which so long ago" | |
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Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz (c. 1651-1695) | |
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She disavows the flattery visible in a portrait of herself | |
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She complains of her lot | |
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She shows distress at being abused for the applause her talent brings | |
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In which she visits moral censure on a rose | |
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She answers suspicions in the rhetoric of tears | |
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On the death of that most excellent lady, Marquise de Mancera | |
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Crosscurrents | |
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Niccol� Machiavelli (1469-1527) | |
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The Prince | |
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Dedicatory Letter | |
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On New Principalities acquired by Means of Ones Own Arms and Ingenuities | |
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How a Prince Should Keep His Word | |
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How Much Fortune Can DO in Human Affairs and How to Contend with it | |
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Exhortation to Take Hold of Italy and Liberate Her from the Barbarians | |
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Resonance | |
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Baldesar Castiglione: from The Book of the Courtier Singleton | |
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Fran�Ois Rablais (c. 1495-1553) | |
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Gargantua and Pantagruel | |
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The Author's Prologue | |
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How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months in His Mother's Belly | |
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How Gargamelle, When Great with Gargantua, Ate Great Quantities of Tripe | |
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The Very Strange Manner of Gargantua's Birth | |
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How Gargantua Received His Name | |
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Concerning Gargantua's Childhood | |
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How Gargantua Was Sent to Paris | |
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How Gargantua Repaid the Parisians for Their Welcome | |
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Gargantua's Studies | |
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How Gargantua Was So Disciplined by Ponocrates | |
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How a Great Quarrel Arose Between the Cake-bakers of Lern� and the People of Grandgousier's | |
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Country, Which Led to Great Wars | |
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How the Inhabitants of Lern�, at the Command of Their King Pierchole, Made an Unexpected Attack on Grandgousier's Shepards | |
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How a Monk of Scuilly Saved the Abbey-close | |
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How Gargantua Ate Six Pilgrims in a Salad | |
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How the Monk Was Feasted by Gargantua | |
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Why Monks are Shunned by the World | |
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How the Monk Made Gargantua Sleep | |
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How the Monk Encouraged His Companions | |
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How Gargantua Had the Abbey of Th�l�me Built for the Monk | |
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How the Th�l�mites' Abbey Was Built and Endowed | |
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The Rules According to Which the Th�m�lites Lived | |
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How Pantagruel found Panurge | |
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How Pantagruel found Panurge | |
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Pantagruel, on the High Seas, Hears Various Words That Have Been Thawed | |
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Pantagruel Hears some Gay Words | |
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Lu�S Vaz De Cam�es (c. 1524-1580) | |
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The Lus�ads | |
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(Invocation) | |
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(King Manuel's death) | |
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(The curse of Adamastor) | |
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(The storm; the voyagers reach India) | |
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(Courage, heroes!) | |
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Resonance | |
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from Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco de Gama | |
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Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) | |
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Essays | |
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Of Idleness | |
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Of the Power of the Imagination | |
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Of Repentance | |
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Of Cannibals | |
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Resonance | |
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Jean de L�ry: from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America | |
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Of Repentance | |
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Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) | |
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Don Quixote | |
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The character of the knight | |
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His first expedition | |
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He attains knighthood | |
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An adventure on leaving the inn | |
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The knight's misfortunes continue | |
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The inquisitions in the library | |
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His second expedition | |
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The adventure of the windmills | |
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The battle with the gallant Basque | |
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A conversation with Sancho | |
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His meeting with the goatherds | |
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The goatherd's story | |
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The conclusion of the story | |
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The dead shepherd's verses | |
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The meeting with Yanguesans | |
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A second conversation with Sancho | |
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A tremendous exploit achieved | |
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The liberation of the gallery slaves | |
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The knight's penitence | |
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The last adventure | |
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The knight, the squire and the bachelor | |
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Sancho provides answers | |
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Dulcinea enchanted | |
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Master Pedro the puppeteer | |
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The puppet show | |
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An extraordinary adventure at an inn | |
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Knight and squire return to their village | |
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A discussion about omens | |
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The death of Don Quixote | |
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Resonance | |
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Jorge Luis Borges: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | |
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Lope De Vega Carpio (1562-1635) | |
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Fuenteovejuna | |
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
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Othello, The Tragedy of the Moor of Mariam | |
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The Tempest | |
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Resonance | |
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Aim� C�saire: from A Tempest | |
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John Donne (1572-1631) | |
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The Sun Rising | |
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Elegy: Going to Bed | |
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Air and Angels | |
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A Valediction: Forbidding mourning | |
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The Relic | |
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The Computation | |
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Holy Sonnets | |
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Oh my black soul! now thou art summoned | |
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee | |
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Batter my heart, three-person'd God | |
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I am a little world made cunningly | |
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Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one | |
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The Devotions: Upon Emergent Occasions | |
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"They find the disease to steal on insensibly" | |
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from 17 "Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me: Thou must die" | |
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Sermons from The Second Prebend Sermon, on Psalm 63:7 "Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice" | |
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Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) | |
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The Author to Her Book | |
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To my Dear and Loving Husband | |
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A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment | |
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children | |
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Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10<sup>th</sup>, 1666 | |
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On My Dear Grand-child Simon Bradstreet | |
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To My Dear Children | |
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John Milton (1608-1674) | |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | |
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When I Consider How My Light is Spent | |
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Paradise Lost | |
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Mesoamerica: Before Columbus And After Cort�s | |
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from POPOL VUH: THE MAYAN COUNCIL BOOK (recorded mid-1550s) | |
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Creation | |
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Hunahpu and Xbalanque in the Underworld | |
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The Final Creation of Humans | |
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Migration and the Division of Languages | |
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The Death of the Quich� Forefathers | |
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Retrieving Writings from the East | |
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Conclusion | |
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Songs Of The Aztec Nobility (15<sup>th</sup> -16<sup>th</sup> century) | |
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Burnishing them as sunshot jades | |
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Flowers are our only adornment | |
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I cry, I grieve, knowing we're to go away | |
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Your hearts are shaken down as paintings, Moctezuma | |
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I strike it up-here!-I, the singer | |
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from Fish Song: It was composed when we were conquered | |
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from Water-Pouring Song | |
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In the flower house of sapodilla you remain a flower | |
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Moctezuma, you creature of heaven, you sing in Mexico | |
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Translations: Songs of the Aztec Nobility: Make your beginning, you who sing Perspectives: The Conquest and its Aftermath | |
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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) | |
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from Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella (7 July 1503) | |
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Bernal D�az del Castillo (1492-1584) | |
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from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain | |
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Hernando Ru�z de Alarc�n (c. 1587-1645) | |
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from Treatise on the Superstitions of the Natives of this New Spain | |
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Resonance | |
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Julio Cort�zar: Axolotl | |
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Bartolom� de las Casas from Apologetic History | |
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Sor Juana In�z de la Cruz (c. 1651-1695) from The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of The Divine Narcissus | |
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Crosscurrents | |
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Bibliography | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |