Works studied

Near East:

• Coll. - The Golden Odes
• Firdausi - The Book of Kings
• Rumi - The Mathnavi
• Sa'di - The Rose Garden
• Hafiz - Selected Poems
• Khayyam - The Rubaiyat
• Hussein - The Stream of Days
• Naguib Mahfouz - Palace Walk
• Coll. - Modern Arabic Poetry

India:

• Coll. - The RigVeda
• The Mahabharata
• Valmiki - The Ramayana
• Kalidasa - Shakuntala
• Vidyakara - The Treasury of Well-Tuned Verse
• R.K. Narayan - The Vendor of Sweets
• Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

China:

• Coll. - The Book of Songs
• Confucius - The Analects
• Chuang-Tzu - Selections from Chuang-Tzu
• Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
• Lu Ki - Rhymeprose on Literature
• Tao Ch'ien - poetry
• Li Po - poetry
• Po Chu-i - poetry

Japan:

• Coll. - Manyoshu
• Sei Shonagon - The Pillow Book
• Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji
• Basho - Narrow Road to the Interior
• Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
• Ryunosuke Akutagawa - In a Grove

Texts Used