The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western LiteratureOxford University Press, 1957 - 763 Seiten "An account of the chief ways in which the Greco-Roman tradition has shaped the literatures of modern Europe and America. Beginning with Old English poetry and French romance, and continuing to mid-twentieth century, the author shows how one country after another learned forms, imagery, myths, style and standards in the gradual but continuous rediscovery of Greco-Roman literary arts." [Back cover]. |
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... Italian playwrights to imitate him . It was Seneca in particular who stimulated and instructed the Renaissance dramatists of Italy and England . From him they took certain characters , attitudes , and devices which , although partly ...
... Italian playwrights to imitate him . It was Seneca in particular who stimulated and instructed the Renaissance dramatists of Italy and England . From him they took certain characters , attitudes , and devices which , although partly ...
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... Italy . The Italians first felt the stimulus of classical drama , and under it they produced the earliest modern comedies , tragedies , operas , pastoral plays , and dramatic criticisms . It turn , they stimulated the French , the ...
... Italy . The Italians first felt the stimulus of classical drama , and under it they produced the earliest modern comedies , tragedies , operas , pastoral plays , and dramatic criticisms . It turn , they stimulated the French , the ...
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... Italy was an escape from that aspect of himself , and from the world which it approved . In Germans this escape is often linked with the most profound hatred for Germany . Goethe , in a poem written during his southern tour , said that ...
... Italy was an escape from that aspect of himself , and from the world which it approved . In Germans this escape is often linked with the most profound hatred for Germany . Goethe , in a poem written during his southern tour , said that ...
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ITALY | 5 |
THE MIDDLE AGES | 11 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE 2247 | 22 |
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