The Norton book of friendship
Invitation to Hsiao Chü-shih / Inviting a friend to supper / Epistle 1.5 / from The life of Samuel Johnson / from My mother's house / The walrus and the carpenter / To Thomas Manning / Here's a bottle and an honest friend / My boat / To the bachelor of arts P'ei Ti / Horses in flowers / The pasture / The evils of Spain
from Nicomachean ethics / from On friendship / from Of friendship / from Of friendship / from The rambler, no. 64 ; from The rambler, no. 40 ; from The idler, no. 23 / from The life of Samuel Johnson
To Joseph Haydn ; To Baron Gottfried von Jacquin / To George Strahan ; To James Boswell ; To Hester Thrale / To the Rev. James Stopford / To Jonathan Swift / To Madame d'Épinay / To Captain Richard Brown / To Jane Williams / 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
from The Iliad / Epistle 1.3 / Epigram 5.42 ; Epigram 1.32 / Hearing that his friend was coming back from the war / Old age ; The letter ; To Liu Yu-Hsi ; Dreaming that I went with Lu and Yu to visit Yüan Chēn / from The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri to Guido Cavalcanti / To Giovanni da Pistoja on the painting of the Sistine Chapel ; To Tommaso Cavalieri / from The faerie queene / from To the immortal memory of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison / To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he had left us / To Mr T.W. / To Mrs. Mary Awbrey ; from Friendship / Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia ; To a friend / from Verses on the death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. / from Retirement / A poison tree ; To Hayley ; To forgive enemies Hayley does pretend / To J.R. / May and death / We two, how long we were fool'd ; As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods ; I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / I'm nobody! who are you? ; I showed her hights she never saw ; We talked as girls do ; Elysium is as far / A snow-storm / The rakes of Mallow / A confession to a friend in trouble ; The man he killed / A Shropshire lad, LIV / 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 / Mr. Flood's party / The listeners / Sonnets to Orpheus, 1.24, 2.8 / Boris Pasternak ; There are four of us ; If all who have begged help / In memoriam / To my friend / The friends / Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias / To Francisco López Merino ; To a minor poet of the Greek anthology / Poem / from Hearts of gold / For friends only ; The common life / Elegy for Jane / Do the others speak of me mockingly, maliciously? / What is the opposite of two? / With mercy for the greedy / Vita amicae / Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff / Forest of Europe / The view from Mount Saint Helens / Friends through at New Year's
This lime-tree bower my prison / from The Grasmere journals / from Christabel / To William Wordsworth / Popular fallacies, XVI : that a sulky temper is a misfortune ; The old familiar faces
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.
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
To Nathaniel Hawthorne / To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) / Correspondence
The voice / The three hermits / Ithaka / Kashtanka / Otherwise birds fly in / Brooksmith / Miss Tempy's watchers / Guests of the nation / The fisherman who had no one to go out in his boat with him / Friendship / A little cloud
Correspondence / from Edward Lear : landscape painter and nonsense poet / To Emily Tennyson ; To Ruth Decie ; To John Ruskin / To Hugh Walpole ; To William Dean Howells / To O.W. Holmes, Jr. ; To his class at Radcliffe College / To William Makepeace Thackeray
To Theodore Dreiser ; To James Joyce ; To Jim Tully / My friend McNulty / Ring ; To Ernest Hemingway ; To Maxwell Perkins / from Max Perkins : editor of genius / To Sidney Cox / To Malcolm Cowley ; To Robert K. Haas ; To Erik Boheman ; To Mrs. Robert K. Haas ; To Robert K. Haas ; To Phillip E. Mullen
from Juvenile journal / from Paris was yesterday / from Memoirs / from Marianne Thornton : a domestic biography / from Your mirror to my times / from De profundis / from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / from Pioneers of France in the New World / Gwendolyn / from Clear pictures / from Julia / from Night / from Sketches from a life
To Eberhard Bethge / Correspondence / Correspondence
To Marianne Moore / To Ezra Pound / Correspondence / from Efforts of affection : a memoir of Marianne Moore / Crusoe in England / from Four poems for Elizabeth Bishop / Correspondence / To Gummo Marx ; To Russell Baker
from A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / from Friendship / from Notes on English character ; from What I believe / from Men in dark times / from A discourse of the nature, offices, and measures, of friendship / from Friendship / from Friendship
Birds of a feather ; A friend in need is a friend indeed / Fable 8.11 : The two friends / from The gouernour / from Somewhere a master / Yoruban folktale -- from Childhood and poetry / from The people of the sea
School ; Our afterlife II / from Robert Trail Spence Lowell / from Gulliver in Lilliput : remembering Robert Lowell / Ford Madox Ford ; from Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 / The sounds of rain
To Olivia Shakespear / from Journals / To Henry Yorke / To Gerald Brenan ; To Dora Carrington ; from Diary / To William Plomer ; To Virginia Woolf
On seeing off Meng Hao-Jan ; Taking leave of a friend ; Exiles' letter / To Wei Pa, a retired scholar / An excuse for not returning the visit of a friend / To Ch 'i-wu Ch 'ien bound home after failing in an examination / from To the ship in which Virgil sailed to Athens / To Thomas Moore / To a friend parting / To a friend going on a journey / Anaktoria / from Return to yesterday / Auld lang syne
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
Sharp, Ronald A.
Po Chü-I -- Ben Jonson -- Horace -- James Boswell -- Colette -- Lewis Carroll -- Charles Lamb -- Robert Burns -- Raymond Carver -- Wang Wei -- Sappho -- Robert Frost -- V.S. Pritchett.
Aristotle -- Cicero -- Michel de Montaigne -- Francis Bacon -- Samuel Johnson -- James Boswell.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Samuel Johnson -- Jonathan Swift -- Alexander Pope -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Robert Burns -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- John Keats.
Homer -- Horace -- Martial -- Wang Chien -- Po Chü-I -- Dante Alighieri -- Dante Alighieri -- Michelangelo Buonarroti -- Edmund Spenser -- Ben Jonson -- Ben Jonson -- John Donne -- Katherine Philips -- Anne Finch -- Jonathan Swift -- William Cowper -- William Blake -- John Keats -- Robert Browning -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Giosuè Carducci -- Anonymous -- Thomas Hardy -- A.E. Housman -- William Butler Yeats -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Walter De La Mare -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- Anna Akhmatova -- Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Wilfred Owen -- Bertolt Brecht -- Federico García Lorca -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Langston Hughes -- Ogden Nash -- W.H. Auden -- Theodore Roethke -- Delmore Schwartz -- Richard Wilbur -- Anne Sexton -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Adrienne Richt -- Derek Walcott -- Michael S. Harper -- August Kleinzahler.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Dorothy Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Charles Lamb.
William Shakespeare.
Herman Melville -- Emily Dickinson -- George S. Hillard and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
V.S. Pritchett -- Leo Tolstoy -- Guy Davenport -- Anton Chekhov -- Nadine Gordimer -- Henry James -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Frank O'Connor -- William Maxwell -- S.Y. Agnon -- James Joyce.
Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev -- Angus Davidson -- Edward Lear -- Henry James -- William James -- Edward Fitzgerald.
H.L. Mencken -- James Thurber -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A. Scott Berg -- Robert Frost -- William Faulkner.
Fanny Burney -- Janet Flanner -- Frédéric Mistral -- E.M. Forster -- Ford Madox Ford -- Oscar Wilde -- Frederick Douglass -- Francis Parkman -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Reynolds Price -- Lillian Hellman -- Elie Wiesel -- George F. Kennan.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Thomas Mann and Erich Kahler -- Albert Campus and Boris Pasternak.
T.S. Eliot -- Vivien Eliot -- T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Robert Lowell -- T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx -- Groucho Marx.
Henry David Thoreau -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- E.M. Forster -- Hannah Arendt -- Jeremy Taylor -- Simone Weil -- C.S. Lewis.
Aesop -- Jean De La Fontaine -- Sir Thomas Elyot -- Elie Wiesel -- Pablo Neruda -- David Thomson.
Robert Lowell -- Peter Taylor -- Seamus Heaney -- Robert Lowell -- Seamus Heaney.
William Butler Yeats -- Lady Gregory -- Evelyn Waugh -- Virginia Woolf -- Elizabeth Bowen.
Li Po -- Tu Fu -- Mei Yao Ch'en -- Wang Wei -- Horace -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Robert Penn Warren -- Mahammed Abdille Hassan -- Sappho -- Ford Maddox Ford -- Robert Burns.
edited by Eudora Welty and Ronald A. Sharp.
