The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature 0195002067, 9780195002065

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The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
0195002067, 9780195002065

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Table of contents :
Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Dark Ages: English Literature
Chapter 3: The Middle Ages: French Literature
Chapter 4: Dante and Pagan Antiquity
Chapter 5: Towards the Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer
Chapter 6: The Renaissance: Translation
Chapter 7: The Renaissance: Drama
Chapter 8: The Renaissance: Epic
Chapter 9: The Renaissance: Pastoral and Romance
Chapter 10: Rabelais and Montaigne
Chapter 11: Shakespeare
Chapter 12: The Renaissance and Afterwards: Lyric Poetry
Chapter 13: Transition
Chapter 14: The Battle of the Books
Chapter 15: A Note on Baroque
Chapter 16: Baroque Tragedy
Chapter 17: Satire
Chapter 18: Baroque Prose
Chapter 19: The Time of Revolution
Chapter 20: Parnassus and Antichrist
Chapter 21: A Century of Scholarship
Chapter 22: The Symbolist Poets and James Joyce
Chapter 23: The Reinterpretation of the Myths
Chapter 24: Conclusion
Index

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