The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
The Fall of the Greek and Roman Civilization
The Dark Ages
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
2 The Dark Ages: English Literature
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Anglo-Saxon Prose
3 The Middle Ages: French Literature
Romances of Chivalrous Adventure
Ovid and Romantic Love
Philomela
The Romance of the Rose
4 Dante and Pagan Antiquity
5 Towards the Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Chaucer
6 The Renaissance: Translation
Translation
Translation in the Western European Countries
Epic
History
Philosophy
Drama
Oratory
Smaller Works
7 The Renaissance: Drama
Debts of Modern Drama to Greece and Rome
Classical Playwrights Who Survived to Influence Modern Drama
Translations of Latin and Greek Plays
Imitations of Classical Drama in Latin
Emulation of Classical Drama in Modern Languages
Other Aspects of Drama Derived from the Classics
8 The Renaissance: Epic
The Four Chief Types of Epic Poetry in the Renaissance
Classical Influences on These Poems
9 The Renaissance: Pastoral and Romance
Pastoral and Romance in the Renaissance
Other Expressions of the Pastoral Ideal
10 Rabelais and Montaigne
Rabelais
Montaigne
11 Shakespeare's Classics
His knowledge of Rome and of Greece
The Classical Authors Whom Shakespeare Knew Well
12 The Renaissance and Afterwards: Lyric Poetry
The Classical Models for Modern Lyrics
What Modern Lyric Poetry Took from Classical Lyric Poetry
The Challenge of Pindar and Responses to It
Horace
Lyrical Poetry in the Revolutionary Era
13 Transition
14 The Battle of the Books
The Chief Arguments Used by the Moderns
Preconceptions behind These Arguments
Chronological Survey of the Battle
Results of the Battle
15 A Note on Baroque
16 Baroque Tragedy
The failure of Baroque Tragedy
17 Satire
Verse Satire Based on Roman Satire
The Renaissance
18 Baroque Prose
Prose Style
Fiction
History
19 The Time of Revolution
1 Introduction
What did Greece mean to the men of the revolutionary age?
2 Germany
3 France and the United States
Classical influences were a leading factor in the French Revolution.
Parallel Expressions in the American Revolution
French Literature of the Revolution
The Heir of the Revolution: Victor Hugo
4 England
5 Italy
Alfieri
Foscolo
Leopardi
6 Conclusion
20 Parnassus and Antichrist
Parnassus: Its Ideals
Antichrist: The Chief Arguments against Christianity
Christian Counter-Propaganda in Popular Novels
21 A Century of Scholarship
Reasons for the Increase
Translations of Classical Books
Education
Reasons for the Decline
The Failure of Classical Teaching and the Responsibility of the Scholar
22 The Symbolist Poets and James Joyce
How These Writers Try to Use Classical Forms
How They Use Classical Legends
Surnrnary
23 The Reinterpretation of the Myths
Philosophical and Psychological Interpretations
Literary Transformations of the Myths
24 Conclusion
Civilization is not the accumulation of wealth, but the good life of the mind.
Brief Bibliography
Notes
1 Introduction
2 The Dark Ages: English Literature
3 The Middle Ages: French Literature
4 Dante and Pagan Antiquity
5 Towards the Renaissance
6 The Renaissance: Translation
7 The Renaissance: Drama
8 The Renaissance: Epic
9 The Renaissance: Pastoral and Romance
10 Rabelais and Montaigne
11 Shakespeare's Classics
12 The Renaissance and Afterwards: Lyric Poetry
13 Transition
14 The Battle of the Books
15 A Note on Baroque
16 Baroque Tragedy
17 Satire
18 Baroque Prose
19 The Time of Revolution
20 Parnassus and Antichrist
21 A Century of Scholarship
22 The Symbolist Poets and James Joyce
23 The Reinterpretation of the Myths
24 Conclusion
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