Monday, September 4, 2006

Part Two

  1. Saint Augustine, 354-430, The Confessions.
  2. Kalidasa, 400, The Cloud Messenger and Sakuntala.
  3. Revealed to Muhummad, 650, The Koran.
  4. Hui-neng, 638-713, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch.
  5. Firdausi, 940-1020, Shah Nameh.
  6. Sei Shonagon, 965-1035, The Pillow-Book.
  7. Lady Murasaki, 976-1015, The Tale of Genji.
  8. Omar Khayyam, 1048-?, The Rubaiyat.
  9. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, The Divine Comedy.
  10. Luo Kuan-chung, 1330-1400, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
  11. Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342-1400, The Canterbury Tales.
  12. Anonymous, 1500, The Thousand and One Nights.
  13. Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527, The Prince.
  14. Francois Rabelais, 1483-1553, Gargantua and Pantagruel.
  15. Attributed to Wu Ch'eng-en, 1500-1582, Journey to the West.
  16. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592, Selected Essays.
  17. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616, Don Quixote.
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2007 at 2:25 PM

    Cami, in Part II, after number 4 we need to add in a section of Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon) Literature, from roughly 700-900 A.D.Here they are: Caedmon's Hymn, Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and the Battle of Maldon.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2007 at 7:18 AM

    And then after Chaucer add
    William Langland's Piers Plowman
    Gawain and the Green Knight
    Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur

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