The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western LiteratureOxford University Press, 1967 - 763 Seiten This landmark book explores the ways in which the Greco-Roman tradition has shaped modern European and American literature. |
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... beautiful poetry for nearly 3,000 years.2 But myths , however beautiful , are not enough to make poetry without fresh imagination ; and in the baroque period too many writers were unimaginative copyists . Therefore the reaction which ...
... beautiful poetry for nearly 3,000 years.2 But myths , however beautiful , are not enough to make poetry without fresh imagination ; and in the baroque period too many writers were unimaginative copyists . Therefore the reaction which ...
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... beautiful about the life they saw around them . They cried : Mist clogs the sunshine . Smoky dwarf houses Hem me round everywhere ; A vague dejection Weighs down my soul.2 They turned away in disgust from the industrial cities which ...
... beautiful about the life they saw around them . They cried : Mist clogs the sunshine . Smoky dwarf houses Hem me round everywhere ; A vague dejection Weighs down my soul.2 They turned away in disgust from the industrial cities which ...
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... beautiful Alexandrian girl whose soul , nourished on the Neoplatonic philosophy , was as beautiful as her body . She was stripped naked by a Christian mob , flayed alive with sharp shells , and then burnt . You , priestess and ...
... beautiful Alexandrian girl whose soul , nourished on the Neoplatonic philosophy , was as beautiful as her body . She was stripped naked by a Christian mob , flayed alive with sharp shells , and then burnt . You , priestess and ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Christianity enriched by GrecoRoman folklore | 9 |
PASTORAL | 12 |
Urheberrecht | |
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