The classical tradition : Greek and Roman influences on Western literature / by Gilbert Highet ; with a new foreword by Harold Bloom.

Author/creator Highet, Gilbert author.
Other author Bloom, Harold writer of foreword.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionxl, 763 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects

Contents The Dark Ages : English literature -- The Middle Ages : French literature -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 550-705) and index.
ISBN9780199377695 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN0199377693 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN883 .H54 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold