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ALG: Open Anthology of Early World Literature in English Translation Open Anthology of Early World Literature in English Translation Guide Information Last Apr 12, 2016 Guide Index Updated: Home Guide URL: http://columbusstate.libguides.com/openworldlit Description: A collection of free and open primary texts in digital formats for the study of early world literature in English translation. Multiple English translations are provided for comparison and study, as well as open secondary and supplemental resources. Tags: fair use, open access RSS: Subscribe to Updates via RSS Featured Librarian Name: Dr. Susan E. Hrach, Columbus State University Subjects: World Literature Email [email protected] Address: Contact Editorial Assistant, Victoria Hargrove Info: Open Anthology of Early World Literature is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution­ NonCommercial­ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Home Welcome to Early World Literature Primary Texts in columns by period and region Secondary and Supplementary Resources at lower right Tetr a images Tetr a Images View image | gettyimages.com Home Ancient Literature ­ Eastern Near East Gilgamesh Academy for Ancient Texts. Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs, 1990. Non­commercial. HTML. Gilgamesh Liberty Fund Online Library. Translated by Jastrow and Clay, 1920. Public domain. Facsimile PDF. Egyptian Love Poetry, 2000 ­ 1100 BCE Internet History Sourcebook, Fordham University. Translated by George A. Barton, 1920. Public domain. HTML. The Bible The Bible in English (Chadwyck ­ Healey). 21 comparable English translations. Anglo­Saxon ­ present. Password protected database (GALILEO). HTML. The Quran Tufts University Perseus Project. Arabic Materials. Public domain. HTML. India The Ramayana and the Mahabharata Liberty Fund Online Library. Translated by Romesh C. Dutt, 1917. Public domain. Facsimile PDF, Kindle, HTML. Bhagavad Gita Academy for Ancient Texts. Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold, 1885. Public domain. HTML. Bhagavad Gita Internet History sourcebook, Fordham University. Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold, 1885. Public domain. HTML. The Bhagvat­Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon Liberty Fund Online Library. Translated by Charles Wilkins, 1785. Public domain. Facsimile PDF. Rigveda: A Vedic Reader for Students Liberty Fund Online Library. Translated by Arthur Macdonell, 1917. Public domain. Facsimile PDF, HTML, Kindle. China Confucian School, The Shi King, The Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese LibertyFund Online Library. Translated by William Jennings, 1891. Public domain. Facsimile PDF, HTML, Kindle. Shih King Sacred Texts Archive. Translated by James Legge, 1879. Public domain. HTML. The Analects of Confucius Chinese Text Project. Translated by James Legge, 1898. Public domain. HTML. Ancient Literature ­ Western Greco­Roman Collection Tufts University Perseus Digital Library Project. Edited by Gregory R. Crane, 1987. Public domain. HTML. Greece Sappho Poems American Academy of Poets, with permission of. Translated by Richard Lattimore and Jim Powell; 1949, 2007. Non­commercial. HTML. Sappho Poems Sacred Texts Archive. Translated by Edwin Marion Cox, transliteration by J.B. Hare; 1925, 2000. Translation: public domain. Transliteration: non­ commercial. HTML. Iliad Poetry in Translation. Translated by Anthony S. Kline, 2009. Non­commercial. HTML. Iliad Internet Classics Archive, MIT. Translated by Samuel Butler, 1898. Public domain. HTML. Iliad Project Gutenberg. Translated by William Cowper, 1791. Public domain. HTML. Rome Aeneid Poetry in Translation. Translated by Anthony S. Kline, 2002. Non­commercial. HTML. Aeneid Internet Classics Archive, MIT. Translated by John Dryden, 1697. Public domain. HTML. Aeneid Project Gutenberg. Translated by J.W. MacKail, 1885. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle. Aeneid Project Gutenberg. Translated by E. Fairfax Taylor, 1907. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle. Know an open World Lit text to add? Thank you for sharing additional links to primary texts or secondary resources! Medieval Literature ­ Eastern Persia / Middle East The Arabian Nights Entertainment Project Gutenberg. Translated by Andrew Lang, 1918. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle. The Arabian Nights Sacred Texts Archive. Translated by Richard Burton, 1850. Public domain. HTML. Laili and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi Hathi Trust Digital Library. Translated by James Atkinson, 1836. Public domain. HTML, PDF. The Masnavi­i Ma'navi of Rumi Sacred Texts Archive. Translated by E.H. Whinfield, 1898. Public domain. HTML. Verses from Rumi and Omar Khayyam Persian Poetry. Multiple translations. Public domain. HTML. India Shakuntala and the Ring of Recollection Liberty Fund Online Library. Translated by Arthur Ryder, 1920. Public domain. Facsimile PDF, HTML, Kindle. Shakuntala and the Ring of Recollection Project Gutenberg. Translated by Arthur Ryder, 1920. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle. Sacontala, or The Fatal Ring Columbia University. Translated by William Jones, 1789. Public domain. HTML. Sakoontala, or The Lost Ring Project Gutenberg. Translated by Monier­Williams, 1855. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle. Amaru Shataka Community Texts Internet Archive. Translated by C.R. Devdhar, 1984. Non­commercial. Facsimile PDF, HTML, ePub, Kindle. Japan Tale of Genji Adelaide University. Translated by Edward Seidensticker, 1978. Public domain. HTML, ePub. Tale of the Heike University of Oregon Libraries, E­Asia. Edited by the East Asiatic Society of Japan, 1918. Non­commercial. PDF. Medieval Literature ­ Western Anglo­Saxon England and Old Norse Beowulf Beowulf Translations. 100 comparable translations, 1805­2005. Public domain. HTML. Beowulf Poetry in Translation. Trans. Anthony S. Kline, 2012. HTML. The Dream of the Rood University of Oxford. Three comparable translations by R. Hamer, D.B. Killings, and J. Glenn; 1970, 1996, 1982. Non­commercial. HTML. The Wanderer University of Oxford. Five comparable translations by J. Glenn, R. Diamond, B. Thorpe, M. Alexander, and R. McDonald; 1982. Non­commercial. HTML. The Story of Grettir the Strong Perseus Project, Tufts University. Edited and translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris, 1869. Public domain. HTML. Volsunga Saga Perseus Project, Tufts University. Edited and translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson, 1888. Public domain. HTML. Italy The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1 (The Inferno) Liberty Fund Online Library. Translated by Courtney Langdon, 1918. Public domain. Facsimile PDF. The Princeton Dante Project, Petrocchi ed. of Commedia Princeton University. Translated by R. & J. Hollander, 1999­2007. Restricted to "individual scholars for research purposes." HTML. Dante Lab Dartmouth University. English translation by H.W. Longfellow; 1867, 2014. Non­commercial. HTML. Digital Dante Columbis University. Translated by Longfellow and A. Mandlebaum; 1867, 1980. Non­commercial. HTML. World of Dante University of Virginia. Translated by Mandlebaum, 1980. Non­commercial. HTML. France Song of Roland Oribus Latinus. Translated by Charles Moncrief, 1919. Public domain. HTML. Song of Roland Community Texts Internet Archive. Translated by Leonce Rabillion, 1885. Public domain. Facsimile PDF, HTML, ePub, Kindle. The Honeysuckle and the Hazel Tree UC Press eBooks & California Digital Library. Translated by Patricia Terry, 1995. Non­commercial. HTML. Lais of Marie de France Project Gutenberg. Translated by Eugene Mason, 1911. Public domain. HTML. Lais of Marie de France University of Florida. Translated by Judith P. Shoaf, 1991­96. With translator's permission. PDF. Early Modern Literature East Asia Zeami Motokiyo, Atsumori Sacred Texts Archive. Translated by Arthur Waley, 1921. Public domain. HTML. Zeami Motokiyo, Atsumori GloPAC. Translated by Karen Bazell, 1998. Japanese PARC. HTML. Europe Italy The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Project Gutenberg. Edited by Thomas Campbell, 2006. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle. The Canzoniere and other works of Petrarch Francesco Petrarca, Father of Humanism. Edited by Peter Sadlon, 2007. Public Domain. HTML. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Project Gutenberg. Translated by John Payne, 2007. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle. Italian Poetry to 1600 Poetry in Translation. Translated by Anthony S. Kline, 2004. HTML. Amaro Lagrimar: the Poems of Vittoria Colonna George Mason University. Translated and arranged by Ellen Moody, 2004. Non­commercial. HTML. France Selected Poems of Pierre de Ronsard Poetry in Translation. Translated by Anthony S. Kline, 2004. Non­commercial. HTML. The Sonnets of Louise Labé Translated by Alice Park, 2000. Non­commercial. Public domain. HTML The Essays of Montaigne, Complete Project Gutenberg. Translated by Charles Cotton and edited by William Hazlitt, 2012. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle. Spain Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote Project Gutenberg. Translated by John Ormsby, 1885. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle. England Complete Plays and Poems of Shakespeare Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Texts. Edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, 2010. Non­commercial. HTML. Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature Editor Anniina Jokinen. 2006. Public Domain. HTML. Americas Popul Vuh Mesoweb Publications. Translated by Allen J. Christenson, 2007. Non­commerical. PDF. Popul Vuh Sacred Texts Archive. Translated by Lewis Spence, 1908. Public domain. HTML. Secondary and supplementary resources General Asian Art Museum San Francisco, 2012. Non­commercial. HTML., Multimedia. In Our Time BBC Radio 4, 2015. Non­commercial. Multimedia. Invitation to World Literature Annenberg Learner. Edited by David Damrosch, 2013. Non­commercial.
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