Glencoe World History

Unit 2: New Patterns of Civilizations, 400–1500

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An 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
Ithaca 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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