num_pages: 624
description: 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.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.
language: English
title: The Norton Book of Friendship
titlecomplete: The Norton Book of Friendship
genres: Research, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 21
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company