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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... civilization was nearly ruined . Literature and the arts became refugees , hiding in outlying areas or under the protection of the church . Few Europeans could read during the Dark Ages . Fewer still could write books . But those who ...
... civilization was nearly ruined . Literature and the arts became refugees , hiding in outlying areas or under the protection of the church . Few Europeans could read during the Dark Ages . Fewer still could write books . But those who ...
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... CIVILIZATION · Civilization was highly developed in the Roman empire When that fell , Europe relapsed almost into barbarism THE DARK AGES How did civilization survive through the barbarian invasions ? The languages of the Greco - Roman ...
... CIVILIZATION · Civilization was highly developed in the Roman empire When that fell , Europe relapsed almost into barbarism THE DARK AGES How did civilization survive through the barbarian invasions ? The languages of the Greco - Roman ...
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... civilization began in Italy , where it died latest • Its two initiators were Italians with French connexions PETRARCH The contrast between Petrarch and Dante symbolizes the gulf between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Petrarch's ...
... civilization began in Italy , where it died latest • Its two initiators were Italians with French connexions PETRARCH The contrast between Petrarch and Dante symbolizes the gulf between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Petrarch's ...
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... civilizations Interruptions and setbacks in progress 3. Nature does not change The material of art is constant , but the conditions of pro- duction change 4. The classics are silly or vulgar 258 259 261-88 261 · 261 261 262-74 262 . 263 ...
... civilizations Interruptions and setbacks in progress 3. Nature does not change The material of art is constant , but the conditions of pro- duction change 4. The classics are silly or vulgar 258 259 261-88 261 · 261 261 262-74 262 . 263 ...
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... civilization and literature mean for the English poets of the revolutionary age ? Wordsworth might seem to be alien from classical influence as a child of nature as a poet who rarely imitated other poets as inventor of a new pastoral ...
... civilization and literature mean for the English poets of the revolutionary age ? Wordsworth might seem to be alien from classical influence as a child of nature as a poet who rarely imitated other poets as inventor of a new pastoral ...
Contents
ITALY | 5 |
THE MIDDLE AGES II14 | 11 |
PASTORAL | 12 |
FRENCH LITERA | 19 |
style and mythology | 20 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE 2247 | 22 |
Marius the Epicurean | 23 |
France the centre of medieval literature | 28 |
Jeffers and Anouilh | 527 |
changes in the plots | 534 |
GrecoRoman paganism | 547 |
SHAKESPEARES CLASSICS | 550 |
illustrative examples | 563 |
The richness of Renaissance epic | 572 |
The Renaissance Drama | 598 |
116 | 611 |
The Romance of Aeneas | 38 |
Filostrato | 55 |
Ovid and romantic love | 57 |
Boccaccios scholarship and discovery of lost classics | 71 |
Eclogues | 86 |
93103 | 94 |
Valerius Flaccus | 101 |
oratory | 105 |
GERMANY | 113 |
smaller works | 123 |
EPIC | 144 |
Adaptations of classical episodes | 153 |
Latinized and hellenized words and phrases | 160 |
Sannazaros Arcadia | 169 |
pastoral opera | 175 |
His book a childish series of giantadventures containing | 182 |
The revolutionary poets of Italy were pessimists | 198 |
Anacreon and his imitators | 229 |
Jonson | 238 |
Spain | 244 |
Lyrical poetry in the revolutionary | 250 |
History of the War 1688 | 280 |
France | 287 |
SATIRE | 299 |
The Romance of the Rose | 305 |
Brants The Ship of Fools | 312 |
BAROQUE PROSE 32254 | 322 |
more Roman than Greek | 352 |
Lessing | 364 |
the group | 372 |
His love for Greek | 379 |
Faust II | 386 |
Foscolo | 395 |
French literature of the revolution | 401 |
Leopardi | 429 |
its ideals | 440 |
the chief arguments against Christianity | 451 |
Christianity is timid and feeble | 459 |
A CENTURY OF SCHOLARSHIP | 466 |
why did he never finish his History of Rome? | 477 |
Arnold and Newman on translating Homer | 483 |
THE SYMBOLIST POETS AND JAMES | 501 |
How his energy dominated his conflicts | 619 |
Victor Hugo | 622 |
The chief arguments used by the moderns | 640 |
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Baroque Tragedy | 648 |
818 | 649 |
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Hugo | 661 |
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Shelley | 672 |
A Century of Scholarship | 690 |
CONCLUSION | 693 |
The revolutionary era and the Renaissance | 703 |
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