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The classical tradition; Greek and Roman influences on western literature

Print Book, English, [1953, ©1949]
Oxford University Press, New York, [1953, ©1949]
xxxviii, 763 pages 23 cm
1011975031
Fall of the Greek and Roman civilization
Dark ages: English literature
Middle ages: French literature
Dante and Pagan antiquity
Towards the Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer
The Renaissance: translation : drama : Epic : pastoral and romance
Rabelais and Montaigne
Shakespeare's classics
Renaissance and afterwards : lyric poetry
Transition
Battle of the books
Note on Baroque
Baroque tragedy
Satire
Baroque prose
Time of revolution
Parnassus and antichrist
Century of scholarship
Symbolist poets and James Joyce
Reinterpretation of the myths