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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... beauty . Other countries have admired beauty together with wealth or power or pleasure or the service of God . None so much as Greece has prized beauty above everything else : beauty in costume , buildings , ornaments , men and women ...
... beauty . Other countries have admired beauty together with wealth or power or pleasure or the service of God . None so much as Greece has prized beauty above everything else : beauty in costume , buildings , ornaments , men and women ...
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... beauty . They meant the highest manifestations of physical beauty , in women , in sea and sky and mountain and forest , in flower - laden earth and winding grottoes , in noble statues and immortal paintings ; and they meant the ...
... beauty . They meant the highest manifestations of physical beauty , in women , in sea and sky and mountain and forest , in flower - laden earth and winding grottoes , in noble statues and immortal paintings ; and they meant the ...
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... beauty can become immortal . Keats says beauty is truth , and truth is an eternal reality . If Keats was the Shakespeare of this nineteenth - century Renaissance , its Milton was Shelley . Not Wordsworth , greatly though he admired ...
... beauty can become immortal . Keats says beauty is truth , and truth is an eternal reality . If Keats was the Shakespeare of this nineteenth - century Renaissance , its Milton was Shelley . Not Wordsworth , greatly though he admired ...
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ITALY | 5 |
THE MIDDLE AGES | 11 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE 2247 | 22 |
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