Z-site: A Companion to the Works of Louis Zukofsky
 
Bibliographies
Sources used by LZ

Sources used by LZ

 

The following makes no pretence to completeness and primarily consists of works that have been consulted and referenced in the notes. As much as possible, I have restricted this list to editions and translations that we can be reasonably certain LZ used, but this cannot be guaranteed in all cases. Books marked with a asterisk (*) are those we know LZ owned at one time or another, although the editions or printings listed may not be precisely those LZ used (see LZ Library).

 

*Adams, Charles Francis and Henry Adams. A Chapter of Erie and Other Essays. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1871. http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com/adams/adams.html

*Adams, Henry. The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma. Intro. Brooks Adams. NY: Capricorn Books, 1920.

*___. The Education of Henry Adams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. http://www.bartleby.com/159/

*___. Letters of Henry Adams (1858-1891). Ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. http://www.archive.org/details/lettersofhenryad028297mbp

*___. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. http://www.online-literature.com/henry-adams/saint-michel-and-chartres/

Allen, H. Stanley. Electrons and Waves: An Introduction to Atomic Physics. London: Macmillan, 1932.

*Aristophanes. Aristophanes, 3 volumes. Trans. Benjamin Bickley Rogers. Harvard UP (Loeb Classical Library, 1946.

Aristotle. Introduction to Aristotle, ed. Richard McKeon. Modern Library, 1947. http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html

___. Aristotle on the Parts of Animals, Trans. W. Ogle. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882. http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html

*___. Nicomachean Ethics. Trans. H. Rackham. Harvard UP, 1945. Loeb Classical Library.

*Bouquet, A.C. Sacred Books of the World: A Companion Source-Book to Comparative Religion. Penguin Books, 1954.

*Bowra, C.M. Primitive Song. NY: New American Library, 1963.

*Bradner, Leicester, ed. The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I. Providence, RI: Brown UP, 1964.

*Browne, Sir Thomas. The Garden of Cyrus, or, The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, and Mystically Considered. 1658. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/hgc.html

Buber, Martin. Ten Rungs: Hasidic Sayings. Trans. Olga Marx. NY: Schocken, 1947.

*Budge, E.A. Wallis. The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani. British Museum, 1895.

*Burns, Emile, ed. Handbook of Marxism. NY: International Publs., 1935.

*Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10800

*Camoens, Luis Vaz de. The Lusiads. Trans. William C. Atkinson. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1952.

*Catullus. Catullus, Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris. Trans. F.W. Cornish [Catullus only]. Heinemann/Putnam, 1913, rev. 1924. Loeb Classical Library.

Cavalcanti, Guido. Guido Cavalcanti Rime. Ed. & trans. Ezra Pound. Genoa, Italy: Marsano, 1932.

*Chapman, George, trans. Homer’s Hymns and Epigrams. John Russell Smith, 1888.

*Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. Walter W. Skeat. Oxford: Clarendon, 1894.

*Cranmer-Byng, L. The Vision of Asia: An Interpretation of Chinese Art and Culture. London: John Murray, 1932, 1947 ed.).

Croce, Benedetto. History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century. Trans. Henry Furst. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.

*Cummings, E.E. Him. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1927.

*Dante, Alighieri. The Inferno of Dante Alighieri. Trans. J.A. Carlyle, rev. H. Oelsner. Temple Classics. London: J.M. Dent, 1900.

*___. The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri. Trans. P.H. Wicksteed. Temple Classics. London: J.M. Dent, 1899.

*___. The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri. Trans. Thomas Okey. Temple Classics. London: J.M. Dent, 1901.

*___. A Translation of the Latin Works of Dante Alighieri. Trans. A.G. Ferrers Howell [De Vulgari Eloquentia] & Philip H. Wicksteed [Epistolae]. Temple Classics. London: J.M. Dent, 1904.

*___. The Vita Nuova and the Canzoniere by Dante Alighieri. Trans. Thomas Okey (The Vita Nuova) and P.H. Wicksteed. Temple Classics. London: J.M. Dent, 1911.

*Debussy, Claude. Monsieur Croche, the Dilettante Hater. Trans. B.N. Langdon Davies. NY: Viking Press, 1927.

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugene Delacroix. Trans. Walter Pach. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938.

*Demetrius. In Aristotle: Poetics, Longinus On the Sublime, Demetius On Style. Ed. and trans. W. Rhys Roberts. Heinemann and Harvard UP, 1902. Loeb Classical Library. http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/demetrius/

*Diderot, Denis, Rameau’s Nephew and Other Works. Trans. Jacques Barzun & Ralph H. Bowen. Doubleday, 1956.

*Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 2 vols. Trans. R.D. Hicks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1970. Loeb Classical Library. Selections: http://www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/sophia/sophia_texts.htm

*Doughty, Charles Montagu. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Abridged by Edward Garnett. Garden City, NY: Doubleday-Anchor, 1955.

*Elegy and Iambus, being the remains of all the Greek elegiac and iambic poets from Callinus to Crates excepting the choliambic writers with the Anacreontea. Ed. and trans. J.M. Edmonds. London: Heinemann and Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1931. Loeb Classical Library.

*Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Letters and Social Aims. Ed. E.W. Emerson. Houghton Mifflin, 1904.

Fry Roger. Last Lectures. Cambridge UP, 1939.

*Gerhardi, William. The Polyglots, 2nd ed. NY: Duffield, 1925. Text quoted in notes is from a revised edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.

*Giles, Herbert A. A History of Chinese Literature. NY: Grove Press, 1923 [originally publ. 1901].

*Golding, Arthur. Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1567). www.elizabethanauthors.com/ovid00.htm

*The Greek Anthology. Trans. W.R. Paton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1915. Loeb Classical Library.

Hale, F. From Persian Uplands. London: Constable, 1920.

Harrison, Jane. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, 2nd ed. London: Merlin, 1962 [originally publ. 1907].

*Hesiod. Hesiod: The Poems and Fragments, done into English Prose with Introduction and Appendices by A.W. Mair. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.

*___. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. London: Heinemann and Harvard UP, 1936. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html#text1

*Homer. The Iliad. Trans. A.T. Murray. Heinemann/Harvard UP, 1924. Loeb Classical Library.

*___. The Iliad. Trans. W.H.D. Rouse. NY: New American Library, 1938.

*___. The Odyssey. Trans. A.T. Murray. Heinemann/Harvard UP, 1919. Loeb Classical Library.

*___. The Odyssey. Trans. W.H.D. Rouse. NY: New American Library, 1937.

*James, Henry. A Small Boy and Others. NY: Scribner’s, 1913.

Jefferson, Thomas. Autobiography. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/jeffpap.htm

___. Notes on the State of Virginia (1784). www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/jevifram.htm

Klee, Paul. On Modern Art. Trans. Paul Findlay, London: Faber & Faber, 1948.

Landor, Walter Savage. The Pentameron: Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare, Minor Prose Pieces, Criticisms. Roberts Brothers, 1888.

*Lewis, Charlton T. and Charles Short. A Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1879. www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059&layout=&loc=A1&query=toc

*Liddell, Henry George and Robert Scott. Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1889. www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058;layout=;loc=a%29a%2Fatos;query=toc

Lucian. Vol. VI [includes “How to Write History]. Trans. K. Kilburn. Heinemann & Harvard UP, 1959. Loeb Classical Library.

*Lucretius. Lucretius on the Nature of Things. Trans. Cyril Bailey. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1910.

Lyell, Sir Charles. Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863). www.gutenberg.org/etext/6335

*Marx, Karl. Capital. Trans. Eden and Cedar Paul. NY: Everyman’s Library, 1930.

___. Letters to Dr. Kugelmann. Ed. With Preface by Lenin. London: Martin Lawrence, [1934?].

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. Selected Correspondence: 1846-1895. Trans. Dona Torr. New York: International Publishers, 1942. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/index.htm

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1954 [reprint of 1948 Free Press edition].

Milton, John. The Poems of John Milton, 2nd ed. Ed. James Holly Hanford. NY: Ronald Press Co., 1953.

Montaigne, Michel de. Montaigne: Selected Essays. Trans. Charles Cotton-W. Hazlitt. Rev and ed. Blanchard Bates. NY: Modern Library, 1949. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3600

Nahm, Milton C., ed. Selections from Early Greek Philosophy, 3rd ed. NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1947.

Niedecker, Lorine. Collected Works. Ed. Jenny Penberthy. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002.

*Pascal, Blaise. Pascal’s Pensées. Intro. T.S. Eliot. Trans. W.F. Trotter. 1931 [1958 ed. used publ. by E.P. Dutton]. http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/pascal/pensees-contents.html

*Paracelsus: Selected Writing. Ed. Jolande Jacobi. Trans. Norbert Guterman. Princeton UP/Bollingen Series, 1951.

Plautus: Poenulus, Pseudolus, and Rudens. Trans. Paul Nixon. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1965. Loeb Classical Library.

*Plato. Dialogues of Plato, 2nd ed. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. Oxford UP, 1875. [One edition LZ used was the Portable Plato, ed. Scott Buchanan (1948), which includes the Jowett translations of Protagoras, Symposium, Phaedo and The Republic]. http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html

*___. Timaeus and Critias. Trans. A.E. Taylor. London: Meuthen, 1929.

Poincaré, Henri. Science and Hypothesis. Trans. Judd Larmor (1905; original French publ. 1901).

*Pound, Ezra. The Cantos of Ezra Pound. NY: New Directions, 1972.

____. Ezra Pound and Music: The Complete Criticism. Ed. R. Murray Schafer. NY: New Directions, 1977.

*____. Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound, rev. ed. Eds. Lea Baechler and A. Walton Litz. NY: New Directions, 1990.

____. The Spirit of Romance. NY: New Directions, 1952 (originally publ. 1910, 1929).

*____. Translations. NY: New Directions, 1963.

Propertius. Elegies. Trans. H.E. Butler. Heineman/G.P. Putnam, 1916 (Loeb Classical Library).

Reznikoff, Charles. The Manner “Music”. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.

*Sandars, N.K. The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Version. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1960.

Scherer, Jacques. Le “Livre” de Mallarmé. Paris: Gallimard, 1957.

Schoenberg, Arnold. “New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea.” Style and Idea, Ed. and Trans. Dika Newlin. NY: Philosophical Library, 1950. http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no6/schoenberg.html

Scriblerus Club. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus. Ed. Charles Kerby-Miller. New Haven: Yale UP, 1950.

*Sextus Empiricus. Against the Professors. Trans. R.G. Bury. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1949. Loeb Classical Library.

*Shakespeare, William. The Complete Poems and Plays of William Shakespeare. Ed. W.A. Neilson and C.J. Hill. New Cambridge Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942.

*Smith, Logan Pearsall. Unforgotten Years. Little, Brown, 1939.

*Spenser, Edmund. Poetical Works. Eds. J.C. Smith & E. de Selincourt. Oxford UP, 1942.

*Spinoza, Baruch. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, 2 vols. Trans. R.H.M. Elwes [except A Political Treatise, by A.H. Gosset]. NY: Dover, 1951. http://www.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/spinoza.new.html

*___. Ethics and On the Correction of the Understanding. Trans. Andrew Boyle. Introduction by George Santayana. NY: Everyman’s Library, 1910.

*___. Spinoza’s Short Treatise on God, Man and Human Welfare. Trans. Lydia Gillingham Robinson. Open Court, 1909.

Stein, Gertrude. How Writing Is Written. Ed. Robert Barlett Haas. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.

*___. Lectures in America. NY: Random House, 1935.

*Strabo. The Geography, 8 vols. Trans. H.L. Jones. Harvard UP, 1917-1932. Loeb Classical Library.

            Books 6-14: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html; Books 1-7 & 15-17: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/home.html

*Terry, Charles Sanford. Bach: A Biography, 2nd ed. Oxford UP, 1933.

*Theophrastus. Enquiry into Plants, 2 vols. Trans. Arthur Hort. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1916. Loeb Classical Library.

Veblen, Thorstein. “The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View.” In The Place of Science in Modern Civilization and Other Essays. NY: Huebsch, 1919). http://de.geocities.com/veblenite/works.htm

___. The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts. NY: Huebsch, 1919 [later edition, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, 1923]. http://de.geocities.com/veblenite/works.htm

*Vico, Giambattista, The New Science. Trans. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1948.

*Williams, Gwyn. An Introduction to Welsh Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Sixteenth Century. London: Faber and Faber, 1953.

Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume I: 1909-1939. Eds. A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. Volume II: 1939-1962. Ed. Christopher MacGowan. NY: New Directions, 1986 and 1988.

*___. Paterson. Ed. Christopher MacGowan. NY: New Directions, 1992.

*___. A Voyage to Pagany. NY: New Directions, 1970 [originally published by Macaulay Co., 1928].

*Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. Trans. G.E.M. Anscombe. Blackwell, 1953.

*___. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Trans. C.K. Ogden and F.P. Ramsey. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1922. http://www.kfs.org/~jonathan/witt/tlph.html

Zetkin, Klara. Reminiscences of Lenin. London: Modern Books Ltd, 1929.