Spring 2007 Texts
All texts are available at the Longwood University Bookstore.
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Fagles (Penguin) [ISBN: 0140445927]
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Mandelbaum (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553210416]
Bhagavad Gita, trans. Miller (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553213652]
Dante, Inferno, trans. Mandelbaum (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553213393]
Li Po, Poems, trans. Hinton (New Directions) [ISBN: 0811213234]
Cervantes, Don Quixote, trans. Grossman (Harper). [ISBN: 0060934344]
Voltaire, Candide, trans. Theo Cuffe (Penguin, 2005) [ISBN: 0143039423]
Kakfa, Metamorphosis, trans. Corngold (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553213695]
The Grainger Review. This is not availble at the bookstore--to obtain a copy, go to the Cashiering office in the Lancaster Building, and tell them that you want to pay the fee for this (it will be $4.00). Then take your receipt to Lisa Seamster in the main office of the English department (Grainger 100), and she will give you a copy.
Please also download, print, read, and bring to class the following additional readings on days indicated on the calendar (obtain password from instructor):
The Sermon on the Mount [PDF]
Excerpts from St. Augustine's Confessions [PDF]
Excerpts from Aquinas's Summa Theologiae [PDF]
Dante Maps [PDF]
Petrarch's "Ascent of Mount Ventoux" [PDF]
Excerpts from Petrarch's Canzoniere [PDF]