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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... contemporary Italian success , Boccaccio's Decameron , although his Canterbury Tales follow a similar plan . Even when he uses a story from it , the Patient Griselda of the Clerk's Tale , he uses Petrarch's Latin translation of it , and ...
... contemporary Italian success , Boccaccio's Decameron , although his Canterbury Tales follow a similar plan . Even when he uses a story from it , the Patient Griselda of the Clerk's Tale , he uses Petrarch's Latin translation of it , and ...
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... contemporary . For instance , in Hamlet , the prince whose companions ( in the original tale told by Saxo Grammaticus ) carried ' runes carved in wood'3 now forges a diplomatic dispatch and its seal , and in his own court discusses the ...
... contemporary . For instance , in Hamlet , the prince whose companions ( in the original tale told by Saxo Grammaticus ) carried ' runes carved in wood'3 now forges a diplomatic dispatch and its seal , and in his own court discusses the ...
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... contemporary documents . The past becomes more real as fiction than as fact . The printer Samuel Richardson published Pamela , or Virtue Rewarded anonymously , because the design was so humble , and the style ( he thought ) so low ...
... contemporary documents . The past becomes more real as fiction than as fact . The printer Samuel Richardson published Pamela , or Virtue Rewarded anonymously , because the design was so humble , and the style ( he thought ) so low ...
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ITALY | 5 |
THE MIDDLE AGES | 11 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE 2247 | 22 |
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