The Norton Book of Friendship,9780393030655

The Norton Book of Friendship

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ISBN13: 9780393030655
ISBN10: 0393030652
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1991-11-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Famous literary friendships such as those between H.L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore are examined in this magnificent collection of stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and memoirs that illuminate the breadth and depth of friendship in all its human complexity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 25(27)
Introduction 27(8)
Ronald A. Sharp
Introduction 35(8)
Eudora Welty
I Invitations 43(22)
Po Chu-I
``Invitation to Hsiao Chu-shih''
45(1)
Ben Jonson
``Inviting a Friend to Supper''
46(1)
Horace
Epistle 1.5
47(1)
James Boswell
From The Life of Samuel Johnson
48(1)
Colette
From My Mother's House
49(1)
Lewis Carroll
``The Walrus and the Carpenter''
49(4)
Charles Lamb
To Thomas Manning
53(1)
Robert Burns
``Here's a bottle and an honest friend''
53(1)
Raymond Carver
``My Boat''
54(1)
Wang Wei
To the Bachelor of Arts P'ei Ti
55(1)
Sappho
``Horses in Flowers''
56(1)
Robert Frost
``The Pasture''
57(1)
V. S. Pritchett
``The Evils of Spain''
58(7)
II Classic Essays 65(34)
Aristotle
From Nicomachean Ethics
67(4)
Cicero
From ``On Friendship''
71(8)
Michel de Montaigne
From ``Of Friendship''
79(9)
Francis Bacon
From ``Of Friendship''
88(2)
Samuel Johnson
From The Rambler, No. 64
90(2)
From The Rambler, No. 40
92(2)
From The Idler, No. 23
94(2)
James Boswell
From The Life of Samuel Johnson
96(3)
III Letters: Group 1 99(30)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To Joseph Haydn
101(1)
To Baron Gottfried von Jacquin
101(1)
Samuel Johnson
To George Strahan
102(1)
To James Boswell
103(1)
To Hester Thrale
103(1)
Jonathan Swift
To the Rev. James Stopford
104(1)
Alexander Pope
To Jonathan Swift
105(6)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To Madame d'Epinay
111(4)
Robert Burns
To Captain Richard Brown
115(1)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To Jane Williams
116(2)
John Keats
To J. H. Reynolds
118(1)
To Benjamin Bailey
118(2)
To J. H. Reynolds
120(1)
To Benjamin Bailey
120(1)
To James Rice
121(1)
To Benjamin Bailey
122(1)
To Charles Brown
122(2)
To C. W. Dilke
124(1)
To the George Keatses
124(1)
To John Taylor
125(1)
To Charles Brown
126(3)
IV Poetry 129(78)
Homer
From The Iliad
131(5)
Horace
Epistle 1.3
136(1)
Martial
Epigram 5.42
137(1)
Epigram 1.32
138(1)
Wang Chien
``Hearing That His Friend Was Coming Back from the War''
138(1)
Po Chu-I
``Old Age''
139(1)
``The Letter''
139(2)
``To Liu Yu-Hsi''
141(1)
``Dreaming That I Went with Lu and Yu to Visit Yuan Chen''
141(1)
Dante Alighieri
From The Divine Comedy
142(1)
``Dante Alighieri to Guido Cavalcanti''
143(1)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
``To Giovanni da Pistoja on the Painting of the Sistine Chapel''
144(1)
``To Tommaso Cavalieri''
145(1)
Edmund Spenser
From The Faerie Queene
145(2)
Ben Jonson
From ``To the Immortal Memory of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison''
147(2)
``To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us''
149(2)
John Donne
``To Mr. T. W.''
151(1)
Katherine Philips
``To Mrs. Mary Awbrey''
152(1)
From ``Friendship''
153(1)
Anne Finch
``Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia''
153(1)
``To a Friend''
154(1)
Jonathan Swift
From ``Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.''
155(3)
William Cowper
From ``Retirement''
158(1)
William Blake
``A Poison Tree''
158(1)
``To Hayley''
159(1)
``To forgive Enemies Hayley does pretend''
159(1)
John Keats
``To J.R.''
159(1)
Robert Browning
``May and Death''
160(1)
Walt Whitman
``We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd''
161(1)
``As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods''
161(1)
``I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing''
162(1)
Emily Dickinson
``I'm Nobody! Who are you?''
163(1)
``I showed her Hights she never saw''
163(1)
``We talked as Girls do''
163(1)
``Elysium is as far''
164(1)
Giosue Carducci
``A Snow-Storm''
164(1)
Anonymous
``The Rakes of Mallow''
165(1)
Thomas Hardy
``A Confession to a Friend in Trouble''
166(1)
``The Man He Killed''
167(1)
A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad, LIV
167(1)
William Butler Yeats
``The Municipal Gallery Re-visited''
168(2)
``Friends''
170(1)
``The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends''
171(1)
``A Deep-sworn Vow''
171(1)
``To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing''
171(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
``Mr. Flood's Party''
172(2)
Walter De La mare
``The Listeners''
174(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Sonnets to Orpheus, 1.24, 2.8
175(1)
Anna Akhmatova
``Boris Pasternak''
176(1)
``There Are Four of Us''
177(1)
``If All Who Have Begged Help''
178(1)
Giuseppe Ungaretti
``In Memoriam''
178(2)
Wilfred Owen
``To My Friend''
180(1)
Bertolt Brecht
``The Friends''
180(1)
Federico Garcia Lorca
``Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias''
181(6)
Jorge Luis Borges
``To Francisco Lopez Merino''
187(1)
``To a Minor Poet of the Greek Anthology''
188(1)
Langston Hughes
``Poem''
189(1)
Ogden Nash
From ``Hearts of Gold''
190(1)
W. H. Auden
``For Friends Only''
190(2)
``The Common Life''
192(2)
Theodore Roethke
``Elegy for Jane''
194(1)
Delmore Schwartz
``Do the Others Speak of Me Mockingly, Maliciously?''
195(1)
Richard Wilbur
``What is the opposite of two?''
196(1)
Anne Sexton
``With Mercy for the Greedy''
197(1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
``Vita Amicae''
198(1)
Adrienne Richt
``Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff''
199(2)
Derek Walcott
``Forest of Europe''
201(3)
Michael S. Harper
``The View from Mount Saint Helens''
204(1)
August Kleinzahler
``Friends Through at New Year's''
205(2)
V Affinities: Group 1 207(14)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
``This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison''
209(2)
Dorothy Wordsworth
From the Grasmere Journals
211(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From ``Christabel''
213(1)
To William Wordsworth
214(2)
Charles Lamb
``Popular Fallacies, XVI-That a Sulky Temper Is a Misfortune''
216(2)
``The Old Familiar Faces''
218(3)
VI The Bible 221(16)
The Book of Ruth
Chapters 1-4
223(5)
The Book of Samuel
Book 1, Chapters 18, 19, 20, 23, 31
228(4)
Book 2, Chapters 1, 4, 9
232(5)
VII Shakespeare 237(20)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 29
239(1)
Sonnet 30
239(1)
Sonnet 32
240(1)
Sonnet 37
240(1)
Sonnet 71
241(1)
Sonnet 104
241(1)
Sonnet 116
241(1)
From A Midsummer Night's Dream
242(1)
From The Merchant of Venice
243(1)
From 1 Henry IV
244(1)
From 2 Henry IV
245(1)
From Julius Caesar
246(3)
From As You Like It
249(2)
From Hamlet
251(2)
From Timon of Athens
253(1)
From The Winter's Tale
254(1)
From The Two Noble Kinsmen
255(2)
VIII Letters: Group 2 257(10)
Herman Melville
To Nathaniel Hawthorne
259(3)
Emily Dickinson
To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson)
262(1)
George S. Hillard and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Correspondence
263(4)
IX Short Stories 267(96)
V. S. Pritchett
``The Voice''
269(5)
Leo Tolstoy
``The Three Hermits''
274(6)
Guy Davenport
``Ithaka''
280(5)
Anton Chekhov
``Kashtanka''
285(17)
Nadine Gordimer
``Otherwise Birds Fly In''
302(10)
Henry James
``Brooksmith''
312(13)
Sarah Orne Jewett
``Miss Tempy's Watchers''
325(9)
Frank O'Connor
``Guests of the Nation''
334(9)
William Maxwell
``The Fisherman Who Had No One to Go Out in His Boat with Him''
343(4)
S. Y. Agnon
``Friendship''
347(4)
James Joyce
``A Little Cloud''
351(12)
X Letters: Group 3 363(28)
Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev
Correspondence
365(6)
Angus Davidson
From Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet
371(3)
Edward Lear
To Emily Tennyson
374(5)
To Ruth Decie
379(1)
To John Ruskin
380(2)
Henry James
To Hugh Walpole
382(1)
To William Dean Howells
383(4)
William James
To O. W. Holmes, Jr.
387(2)
To His Class at Radcliffe College
389(1)
Edward Fitzgerald
To William Makepeace Thackeray
389(2)
XI Affinities: Group 2 391(36)
H. L. Mencken
To Theodore Dreiser
393(3)
To James Joyce
396(1)
To Jim Tully
397(1)
James Thurber
``My Friend McNulty''
398(7)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
``Ring''
405(5)
To Ernest Hemingway
410(5)
To Maxwell Perkins
415(1)
A. Scott Berg
From Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
416(2)
Robert Frost
To Sidney Cox
418(1)
William Faulkner
To Malcolm Cowley
419(3)
To Robert K. Haas
422(1)
To Erik Boheman
423(1)
To Mrs. Robert K. Haas
424(1)
To Robert K. Haas
424(1)
To Phillip E. Mullen
425(2)
XII Memoirs and Histories 427(44)
Fanny Burney
From Juvenile Journal
429(1)
Janet Flanner
From Paris Was Yesterday
430(2)
Frederic Mistral
From Memoirs
432(4)
E. M. Forster
From Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography
436(2)
Ford Madox Ford
From Your Mirror to My Times
438(4)
Oscar Wilde
From De Profundis
442(2)
Frederick Douglass
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
444(1)
Francis Parkman
From Pioneers of France in the New World
445(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
Gwendolyn
447(10)
Reynolds Price
From Clear Pictures
457(4)
Lillian Hellman
From Julia
461(4)
Elie Wiesel
From Night
465(3)
George F. Kennan
From Sketches from a Life
468(3)
XIII Letters: Group 4 471(12)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To Eberhard Bethge
473(4)
Thomas Mann and Erich Kahler
Correspondence
477(4)
Albert Camus and Boris Pasternak
Correspondence
481(2)
XIV Affinities: Group 3 483(28)
T. S. Eliot
To Marianne Moore
485(1)
Vivien Eliot
To Ezra Pound
486(1)
T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound
Correspondence
487(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
From Efforts of Affection: A Memoir of Marianne Moore
489(7)
``Crusoe in England''
496(5)
Robert Lowell
From ``Four Poems for Elizabeth Bishop''
501(1)
T. S. Eliot Groucho Marx
Correspondence
501(7)
Groucho Marx
To Gummo Marx
508(1)
To Russell Baker
509(2)
XV Further Essays 511(18)
Henry David Thoreau
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
513(6)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From ``Friendship''
519(1)
E. M. Forster
From ``Notes on English Character''
520(1)
From ``What I Believe''
521(2)
Hannah Arendt
From Men in Dark Times
523(1)
Jeremy Taylor
From ``A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures, of Friendship''
524(2)
Simone Weil
From ``Friendship''
526(1)
C. S. Lewis
From ``Friendship''
527(2)
XVI Fables, Legends, and Folktales 529(12)
Aesop
``Birds of a Feather''
531(1)
``A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed''
531(1)
Jean De La Fontaine
Fable 8.11: ``The Two Friends''
532(1)
Sir Thomas Elyot
From The Gouernour
533(1)
Elie Wiesel
From Somewhere a Master
534(1)
Yoruban Folktale
535(6)
Pablo Neruda
From ``Childhood and Poetry''
537(1)
David Thomson
From The People of the Sea
538(3)
XVII Affinities: Group 4 541(14)
Robert Lowell
``School''
543(1)
``Our Afterlife II''
543(2)
Peter Taylor
From ``Robert Trail Spence Lowell''
545(1)
Seamus Heaney
From ``Gulliver in Lilliput: Remembering Robert Lowell''
546(2)
Robert Lowell
``Ford Madox Ford''
548(2)
From ``Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965''
550(2)
Seamus Heaney
``The Sounds of Rain''
552(3)
XVIII Letters: Group 5 555(34)
William Butler Yeats
To Olivia Shakespear
557(6)
Lady Gregory
From Journals
563(1)
Evelyn Waugh
To Henry Yorke
564(10)
Virginia Woolf
To Gerald Brenan
574(3)
To Dora Carrington
577(2)
From Diary
579(2)
Elizabeth Bowen
To William Plomer
581(3)
To Virginia Woolfs
584(5)
XIX Farewells 589(15)
Li Po
``On Seeing Off Meng Hao-Jan''
591(1)
``Taking Leave of a Friend''
592(1)
``Exiles' Letter''
592(2)
Tu Fu
``To Wei Pa, a Retired Scholar''
594(1)
Mei Yao Ch'en
``An Excuse for Not Returning the Visit of a Friend''
595(1)
Wang Wei
``To Ch'i-wu Ch'ien Bound Home After Failing in an Examination''
596(1)
Horace
From ``To the Ship in Which Virgil Sailed to Athens''
597(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron
``To Thomas Moore''
597(1)
Robert Penn Warren
``To a Friend Parting''
598(1)
Mahammed Abdille Hassan
``To a Friend Going on a Journey''
599(1)
Sappho
``Anaktoria''
600(1)
Ford Madox Ford
From Return to Yesterday
601(1)
Robert Burns
``Auld Lang Syne''
602(2)
Envoi: ``The Irish Dancer'' 604(1)
The Authors 605(4)
Permissions 609(8)
Index 617

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