The Norton book of friendship / edited by Eudora Welty and Ronald A. Sharp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.

Sharp, Ronald A.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship--Literary collections.

Friendship.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

622 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, [1991]

Summary:

Presents more than 270 selections that reflect the meaning and diversity of friendship.

Contents:

Invitations. Invitation to Hsiao Chü-shih / Po Chü-I

Inviting a friend to supper / Ben Jonson

Epistle 1.5 / Horace

from The life of Samuel Johnson / James Boswell

from My mother's house / Colette

The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll

To Thomas Manning / Charles Lamb

Here's a bottle and an honest friend / Robert Burns

My boat / Raymond Carver

To the bachelor of arts P'ei Ti / Wang Wei

Horses in flowers / Sappho

The pasture / Robert Frost

The evils of Spain / V.S. Pritchett.

Classic essays. from Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle

from On friendship / Cicero

from Of friendship / Michel de Montaigne

from Of friendship / Francis Bacon

from The rambler, no. 64 ; from The rambler, no. 40 ; from The idler, no. 23 / Samuel Johnson

from The life of Samuel Johnson / James Boswell.

Letters : group 1. To Joseph Haydn ; To Baron Gottfried von Jacquin / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To George Strahan ; To James Boswell ; To Hester Thrale / Samuel Johnson

To the Rev. James Stopford / Jonathan Swift

To Jonathan Swift / Alexander Pope

To Madame d'Épinay / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To Captain Richard Brown / Robert Burns

To Jane Williams / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

To J.H. Reynolds ; To Benjamin Bailey ; To J.H. Reynolds ; To Benjamin Bailey ; To James Rice ; To Benjamin Bailey ; To Charles Brown ; To C.W. Dilke ; To the George Keatses ; To John Taylor ; To Charles Brown / John Keats.

Poetry. from The Iliad / Homer

Epistle 1.3 / Horace

Epigram 5.42 ; Epigram 1.32 / Martial

Hearing that his friend was coming back from the war / Wang Chien

Old age ; The letter ; To Liu Yu-Hsi ; Dreaming that I went with Lu and Yu to visit Yüan Chēn / Po Chü-I

from The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri to Guido Cavalcanti / Dante Alighieri

To Giovanni da Pistoja on the painting of the Sistine Chapel ; To Tommaso Cavalieri / Michelangelo Buonarroti

from The faerie queene / Edmund Spenser

from To the immortal memory of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison / Ben Jonson

To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he had left us / Ben Jonson

To Mr T.W. / John Donne

To Mrs. Mary Awbrey ; from Friendship / Katherine Philips

Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia ; To a friend / Anne Finch

from Verses on the death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. / Jonathan Swift

from Retirement / William Cowper

A poison tree ; To Hayley ; To forgive enemies Hayley does pretend / William Blake

To J.R. / John Keats

May and death / Robert Browning

We two, how long we were fool'd ; As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods ; I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman

I'm nobody! who are you? ; I showed her hights she never saw ; We talked as girls do ; Elysium is as far / Emily Dickinson

A snow-storm / Giosuè Carducci

The rakes of Mallow / Anonymous

A confession to a friend in trouble ; The man he killed / Thomas Hardy

A Shropshire lad, LIV / A.E. Housman

The municipal gallery re-visited ; Friends ; The lover pleads with his friend for old friends ; A deep-sworn vow ; To a friend whose work has come to nothing / William Butler Yeats

Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson

The listeners / Walter De La Mare

Sonnets to Orpheus, 1.24, 2.8 / Rainer Maria Rilke

Boris Pasternak ; There are four of us ; If all who have begged help / Anna Akhmatova

In memoriam / Giuseppe Ungaretti

To my friend / Wilfred Owen

The friends / Bertolt Brecht

Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias / Federico García Lorca

To Francisco López Merino ; To a minor poet of the Greek anthology / Jorge Luis Borges

Poem / Langston Hughes

from Hearts of gold / Ogden Nash

For friends only ; The common life / W.H. Auden

Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke

Do the others speak of me mockingly, maliciously? / Delmore Schwartz

What is the opposite of two? / Richard Wilbur

With mercy for the greedy / Anne Sexton

Vita amicae / Ursula K. Le Guin

Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff / Adrienne Richt

Forest of Europe / Derek Walcott

The view from Mount Saint Helens / Michael S. Harper

Friends through at New Year's / August Kleinzahler.

Affinities : group I. This lime-tree bower my prison / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

from The Grasmere journals / Dorothy Wordsworth

from Christabel / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To William Wordsworth / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Popular fallacies, XVI : that a sulky temper is a misfortune ; The old familiar faces / Charles Lamb.

The Bible. from The book of Ruth. Chapters 1-4 ; from The book of Samuel. Book I, chapters 18, 19, 20, 23, 31 ; Book 2, chapters 1, 4, 9.

Shakespeare. Sonnet 29 ; Sonnet 30 ; Sonnet 32 ; Sonnet 37 ; Sonnet 71 ; Sonnet 104 ; Sonnet 116 ; from A midsummer night's dream ; from The merchant of Venice ; from 1 Henry IV ; from 2 Henry IV ; from Julius Caesar ; from As you like it ; from Hamlet ; from Timon of Athens ; from The winter's tale ; from The two noble kinsmen / William Shakespeare.

Letters : group 2. To Nathaniel Hawthorne / Herman Melville

To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) / Emily Dickinson

Correspondence / George S. Hillard and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Short stories. The voice / V.S. Pritchett

The three hermits / Leo Tolstoy

Ithaka / Guy Davenport

Kashtanka / Anton Chekhov

Otherwise birds fly in / Nadine Gordimer

Brooksmith / Henry James

Miss Tempy's watchers / Sarah Orne Jewett

Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor

The fisherman who had no one to go out in his boat with him / William Maxwell

Friendship / S.Y. Agnon

A little cloud / James Joyce.

Letters : group 3. Correspondence / Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev

from Edward Lear : landscape painter and nonsense poet / Angus Davidson

To Emily Tennyson ; To Ruth Decie ; To John Ruskin / Edward Lear

To Hugh Walpole ; To William Dean Howells / Henry James

To O.W. Holmes, Jr. ; To his class at Radcliffe College / William James

To William Makepeace Thackeray / Edward Fitzgerald.

Affinities : group 2. To Theodore Dreiser ; To James Joyce ; To Jim Tully / H.L. Mencken

My friend McNulty / James Thurber

Ring ; To Ernest Hemingway ; To Maxwell Perkins / F. Scott Fitzgerald

from Max Perkins : editor of genius / A. Scott Berg

To Sidney Cox / Robert Frost

To Malcolm Cowley ; To Robert K. Haas ; To Erik Boheman ; To Mrs. Robert K. Haas ; To Robert K. Haas ; To Phillip E. Mullen / William Faulkner.

Memoirs and histories. from Juvenile journal / Fanny Burney

from Paris was yesterday / Janet Flanner

from Memoirs / Frédéric Mistral

from Marianne Thornton : a domestic biography / E.M. Forster

from Your mirror to my times / Ford Madox Ford

from De profundis / Oscar Wilde

from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Frederick Douglass

from Pioneers of France in the New World / Francis Parkman

Gwendolyn / Elizabeth Bishop

from Clear pictures / Reynolds Price

from Julia / Lillian Hellman

from Night / Elie Wiesel

from Sketches from a life / George F. Kennan.

Letters : group 4. To Eberhard Bethge / Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Correspondence / Thomas Mann and Erich Kahler

Correspondence / Albert Campus and Boris Pasternak.

Affinities : group 3. To Marianne Moore / T.S. Eliot

To Ezra Pound / Vivien Eliot

Correspondence / T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

from Efforts of affection : a memoir of Marianne Moore / Elizabeth Bishop

Crusoe in England / Elizabeth Bishop

from Four poems for Elizabeth Bishop / Robert Lowell

Correspondence / T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx

To Gummo Marx ; To Russell Baker / Groucho Marx.

Further essays. from A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Henry David Thoreau

from Friendship / Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Notes on English character ; from What I believe / E.M. Forster

from Men in dark times / Hannah Arendt

from A discourse of the nature, offices, and measures, of friendship / Jeremy Taylor

from Friendship / Simone Weil

from Friendship / C.S. Lewis.

Fables, legends, and folktales. Birds of a feather ; A friend in need is a friend indeed / Aesop

Fable 8.11 : The two friends / Jean De La Fontaine

from The gouernour / Sir Thomas Elyot

from Somewhere a master / Elie Wiesel

Yoruban folktale

from Childhood and poetry / Pablo Neruda

from The people of the sea / David Thomson.

Affinities : group 4. School ; Our afterlife II / Robert Lowell

from Robert Trail Spence Lowell / Peter Taylor

from Gulliver in Lilliput : remembering Robert Lowell / Seamus Heaney

Ford Madox Ford ; from Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 / Robert Lowell

The sounds of rain / Seamus Heaney.

Letters : group 5. To Olivia Shakespear / William Butler Yeats

from Journals / Lady Gregory

To Henry Yorke / Evelyn Waugh

To Gerald Brenan ; To Dora Carrington ; from Diary / Virginia Woolf

To William Plomer ; To Virginia Woolf / Elizabeth Bowen.

Farewells. On seeing off Meng Hao-Jan ; Taking leave of a friend ; Exiles' letter / Li Po

To Wei Pa, a retired scholar / Tu Fu

An excuse for not returning the visit of a friend / Mei Yao Ch'en

To Ch 'i-wu Ch 'ien bound home after failing in an examination / Wang Wei

from To the ship in which Virgil sailed to Athens / Horace

To Thomas Moore / George Gordon, Lord Byron

To a friend parting / Robert Penn Warren

To a friend going on a journey / Mahammed Abdille Hassan

Anaktoria / Sappho

from Return to yesterday / Ford Maddox Ford

Auld lang syne / Robert Burns.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0393030652

9780393030655

OCLC:

23357486