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]. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 22
Seite 132
... Aeschylus.13 The neglect of Aristophanes may be explained by the oddity of his form , the extreme topicality and indecency of his humour , and the complexity of his language . Rabelais had a copy of his works ; but , although he closely ...
... Aeschylus.13 The neglect of Aristophanes may be explained by the oddity of his form , the extreme topicality and indecency of his humour , and the complexity of his language . Rabelais had a copy of his works ; but , although he closely ...
Seite 201
... Aeschylus . Yet what can we say when we find some of Aeschylus ' thoughts appearing in Shake- speare's plays ? The only explanation is that great poets in times and countries distant from each other often have similar thoughts and ...
... Aeschylus . Yet what can we say when we find some of Aeschylus ' thoughts appearing in Shake- speare's plays ? The only explanation is that great poets in times and countries distant from each other often have similar thoughts and ...
Seite 419
... Aeschylus , whom he preferred far above the others , now at last returned to his rightful place in literature . As early as 1809 Shelley was quoting him ; 36 he trans- lated Prometheus Bound to Byron in 1816 and to Medwin in 1820-1 ...
... Aeschylus , whom he preferred far above the others , now at last returned to his rightful place in literature . As early as 1809 Shelley was quoting him ; 36 he trans- lated Prometheus Bound to Byron in 1816 and to Medwin in 1820-1 ...
Inhalt
ITALY | 5 |
THE MIDDLE AGES | 11 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE 2247 | 22 |
Urheberrecht | |
95 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admired Aeneas Aeneid ancient authors baroque age beauty became Beowulf Boethius Boileau Cædmon called century characters Chaucer chief Christian church Cicero civilization classical literature Comedy contemporary culture Dante Dante's death drama emotion English epic essay famous France French German Gibbon Goethe greatest Greco-Roman Greece Greece and Rome Greek and Latin Greek and Roman hero heroic Homer Horace ideals Iliad imagination imitation important inspired Italian Italy Jean de Meun knew language legend less lived lyric medieval metre Middle Ages Milton modelled modern Montaigne moral myth nature odes Odyssey original Ovid pagan pastoral pattern Petrarch philosophical Pindar Plato Plautus plays Plutarch poem poetic poetry poets produced prose Renaissance revolutionary Roman empire Rome Ronsard satire satirists says scholars Seneca Shakespeare sometimes songs spirit stanza story style symbol Telemachus Theocritus thought tion tradition tragedy translation Trojan Troy Vergil verse words write written wrote