The classical tradition, Greek and Roman influences on western literature, by Gilbert Highet
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The classical tradition, Greek and Roman influences on western literature, by Gilbert Highet
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"Brief bibliography": pages 550-555. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 556-705)
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non fiction
Main title
The classical tradition
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bibliography
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327867
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by Gilbert Highet
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A Galaxy book
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Greek and Roman influences on western literature
Table of contents
The fall of the Greek and Roman civilization -- The dark ages -- The middle ages -- The renaissance -- The dark ages: English literature -- Secular poetry -- Christian poetry -- British church v. Roman church -- Christian Anglo-Saxons v. pagan Northmen -- The middle ages: French literature -- Ovid and romantic love -- The romance of the rose -- Dante and pagan antiquity -- Towards the renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer -- The renaissance: translation -- The renaissance: drama -- The renaissance: epic -- The renaissance: pastoral and romance -- Rabelais and Montaigne -- Shakespeare's classics -- The renaissance and afterwards: lyric poetry -- Transition -- The battle of the books -- A note on baroque -- Baroque tragedy -- Satire -- Baroque prose -- The time of revolution -- Parnassus and Antichrist -- A century of scholarship -- The symbolist poets and James Joyce -- The reinterpretation of the myths -- Conclusion
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