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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... close to complete coverage . But at the end of the period no one man could possibly have known all that was to be known about Greece and Rome . The best he could hope for was to understand the fundamentals , to follow the main channels ...
... close to complete coverage . But at the end of the period no one man could possibly have known all that was to be known about Greece and Rome . The best he could hope for was to understand the fundamentals , to follow the main channels ...
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... close friend of Mallarmé , collected Japanese pictures and emulated the elusiveness of oriental art ; among Pound's best poems are several groups of translations from early Chinese lyrics ; and Mallarmé , in one of his most decisive ...
... close friend of Mallarmé , collected Japanese pictures and emulated the elusiveness of oriental art ; among Pound's best poems are several groups of translations from early Chinese lyrics ; and Mallarmé , in one of his most decisive ...
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... close to the use of ' metaphysical ' in seventeenth - century literature . This derivation , although its context is intellectual , rather than aesthetic like that given in the text , still carries much of the same fundamental meaning ...
... close to the use of ' metaphysical ' in seventeenth - century literature . This derivation , although its context is intellectual , rather than aesthetic like that given in the text , still carries much of the same fundamental meaning ...
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ITALY | 5 |
THE MIDDLE AGES | 11 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE 2247 | 22 |
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