Open Anthology of Early World Literature in English Translation

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Primary Texts in columns by period and region

Secondary and Supplementary Resources at lower right

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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.

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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. HTML.

Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity

Theodore L. Steinberg. SUNY Open Textbooks, 2013. PDF, ePub.

Translation: What Difference Does it Make?

Victoria Poulakis, Northern Virginia Community College, 2001. Non­commercial. HTML.

World Masterpieces through 1650

Edited by Rhonda L. Kelley

World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650

Edited by Laura Getty, Kyounghye Kwon, Rhonda L. Kelley, and Douglas Thomson

Ancient

Aeneid audio lectures by Susanna Braund

Stanford Continuing Studies Program, 2007. iTunes.

The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry

Project Gutenberg. W.G. Archer, 1950. Public domain. HTML, ePub, Kindle.

Medieval

Danteworlds

University of Texas. DanteWorlds, 2000s. Non­commercial. HTML.

Early Modern

Translating a No Drama

Yasuko Claremont, Literature & Aesthetics 17.2 (2007): 209­223. PDF.

Vittoria Colonna: a study, with translations of some of her published and unpublished sonnets

Internet Archive Digital Library. Alethea Wiel, 1889. Non­commercial. PDF, ePub, Kindle, HTML.

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