Glencoe World HistoryUnit 2:
New Patterns of Civilizations, 400–1500Literature ConnectionsGlencoe Literature Library
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Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Antigone
by Sophocles
The
Bamboo Hut by Nguyen Trai
from
Beowulf by Anonymous
Bisclavret:
The Lay of the Werewolf by Marie de France
Bonny
Barbara Allan by Anonymous
from The
Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
By
the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét
from The
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The
Counsels of the Bird: from the Masnavi by Rumi
The
Damask Drum by Seami Motokiyo
from the
Decameron: Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio
from The
Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede
from Everyman
by Anonymous
Forsaking
the Mists by Lady Ise
Get
Up and Bar the Door by Anonymous
Green
Willow retold by Rafe Martin
from the
Inferno: from the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Ithaka
by C. P. Cavafy
Jade
Flower Palace by Tu Fu
The
Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
The
Lark by Bernart de Ventadorn
Laura:
from Canzoníere by Petrarch
from Le
Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
The
Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
from the
Odyssey by Homer
from The
Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
from the
Qur'an: The Exordium and Daylight translated by N. J. Dawood
The
River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
from the
Rubáyiyát by Omar Khayyám
The
Seafarer by Anonymous
from Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
Sir
Patrick Spens by Anonymous
Siren
Song by Margaret Atwood
from the
Song of Roland translated by Frederick Goldin
from Sundiata:
from The Lion's Awakening retold by D. T. Niane
from The
Thousand and One Nights: The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor translated
by N. J. Dawood
Three
Haiku by Matsuo Basho
The
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Trailing
on the Wind by Saigyo
Two
Lies told by An Zong-Og
Two
Tanka by Lady Ise
Waiting
for the Barbarians by C. P. Cavafy
Was
It That I Went to Sleep by Ono no Komachi
When
I Went to Visit by Ki no Tsurayuki
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