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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... century philosophers , but he was also a popular and successful poet of love . Even after ( with true Dark Age savagery , surviving into these difficult centuries ) he had been castrated and silenced , he corresponded with his love ...
... century philosophers , but he was also a popular and successful poet of love . Even after ( with true Dark Age savagery , surviving into these difficult centuries ) he had been castrated and silenced , he corresponded with his love ...
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... century research.73 Fénelon's Telemachus owed part of its popularity to the same interest , at an earlier stage , which later made The Travels of Young Anacharsis in Greece a continuous best - seller for genera- tions.74 Even in the ...
... century research.73 Fénelon's Telemachus owed part of its popularity to the same interest , at an earlier stage , which later made The Travels of Young Anacharsis in Greece a continuous best - seller for genera- tions.74 Even in the ...
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... century and the opening of the twentieth century . These were history , translation , and education . The third is by all odds the most important . The history of the Greco - Roman world was rewritten by the scholars of the nineteenth ...
... century and the opening of the twentieth century . These were history , translation , and education . The third is by all odds the most important . The history of the Greco - Roman world was rewritten by the scholars of the nineteenth ...
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ITALY | 5 |
THE MIDDLE AGES | 11 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE 2247 | 22 |
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