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Selections for this episode are read in the following order:

John Ruskin, “Modern Painters”

Ivan Franko, "Hutsul Fairy Tales”

“Kawaida Stories", various North American indigenous storytellers, recorded traditions

Matsuo Bashō, 17th century haiku

"Malay Folk Tales", various sources, collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Rainer Maria Rilke

Wang Wei, “Deer Enclosure”

Kalidasa, “Meghadūta”

William Wordsworth, “The Prelude”

Fulani epic, paraphrased, West African oral tradition

Alexander Pope, “The Hermit”

"Korean Folk Songs", various periods, oral tradition, translated by various scholars

Lord Byron, “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”

Jack London, "The Call of the Wild"

Rabindranath Tagore, “The Approaching Storm”

"The Kalevala", compiled 19th century from oral tradition, translated by Eino Friberg

"The Bushman's Dream", Southern Africa recorded oral tradition

"The Epic of Manas", Kyrgyzstan oral epic, translated by various scholars

Sei Shōnagon, "The Pillow Book"

Cao Xueqin, "The Dream of the Red Chamber"

"The Tale of the Heike", translated by Hiroshi Kitagawa and Bruce T. Tsuchida

Ivan Franko, "The Iron Age"