The Classical Tradition : Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature: Greek and Roman Influences on Western LiteratureA reissue in paperback of a title first published in 1949. |
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Contents
THE MIDDLE AGES H14 | 11 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE 2247 | 22 |
Marius the Epicurean | 23 |
FRENCH LITERA | 48 |
The Romance of Aeneas | 55 |
DANTE AND PAGAN ANTIQUITY 7080 | 70 |
PETRARCH | 81 |
Boccaccio 8993 | 89 |
The sixteenthcentury Renaissance did not affect Germany | 367 |
Voss | 375 |
FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES 390407 | 390 |
David | 391 |
Parallel expressions in the American revolution 399401 | 399 |
Victor Hugo 457 | 406 |
He preferred the countries themselves and their ideals | 415 |
The revolutionary poets of Italy were pessimists | 424 |
DRAMA 12743 | 127 |
EPIC 14461 | 144 |
The richness of Renaissance epic | 161 |
PASTORAL | 162 |
RABELAIS AND MONTAIGNE 17893 | 178 |
Chapter u SHAKESPEARES CLASSICS 194218 | 194 |
Lyrical poetry in the revolutionary era 2SO3 | 250 |
TRANSITION 25560 | 255 |
THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS 26188 | 261 |
England | 282 |
A NOTE ON BAROQUE 2 8992 | 289 |
SATIRE 30321 | 303 |
BAROQUE PROSE 32254 | 322 |
THE TIME OF REVOLUTION 355436 | 355 |
Other authors | 435 |
its ideals 43953 | 440 |
the chief arguments against Ch ristianity 45363 | 454 |
Christian counterpropaganda in popular n ovels 4625 | 462 |
A CENTURY OF SCHOLARSHIP 466500 | 466 |
THE SYMBOLIST POETS AND JAMES | 501 |
How they use classical legends 50716 | 507 |
THE REINTERPRETATION OF | 520 |
Myths as symbols of natural processes | 522 |
CONCLUSION 5419 | 541 |
BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY | 550 |
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| Title | The Classical Tradition : Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature |
| Author | Gilbert Highet |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA, 1949 |
| ISBN | 0198020066, 9780198020066 |
| Length | 802 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature |
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