ENGL 201:  World Literature (Fall 2005)

Texts, all available at the Longwood University Bookstore

Please use these editions and translations--in fact, it would be a good idea to print this list and take it to the bookstore with you so you can make sure you have the correct texts.

Homer, The Iliad, trans. Fagles (Penguin) [ISBN: 0140445927]
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Fitzgerald (Viking) [ISBN: 0679729526]
Bhagavad Gita, trans. Mitchell. [ISBN: 0609810340]
Dante, Inferno, trans. Durling (Oxford) [ISBN:  0195087445]
Two Spanish Picaresque Novels [incl. Lazarillo de Tormes], trans. Alpert (Penguin, revised edition). [ISBN: 0140449000]
Voltaire, Candide, trans. John Butt (Penguin, 1972) [ISBN: 0140440046]

Please also download, print, read, and bring to class the following additional readings (obtain password from instructor):

The Sermon on the Mount
Excerpts from St. Augustine's Confessions
Excerpts from Aquinas's Summa Theologiae
Dante Maps
Petrarch's "Ascent of Mount Ventoux"
Excerpts from Petrarch's Canzoniere
Samuel Beckett, "First Love"