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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957. Titans of literature, from Homer to the present. New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932 (OCoLC)591034967 |
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| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Burton Rascoe |
| ISBN: | 0836917758 9780836917758 |
| OCLC Number: | 264713 |
| Description: | xiii, 496 p. fronts., ports. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Homer and Greek legend -- Sophocles and Greek drama -- Virgil and Latin poetry -- Dante and the medieval mind -- Boccaccio and the Renaissance -- Villon and medieval music -- Montaigne and the average man -- Cervantes and the spirit of mockery -- Chaucer and the English spirit -- Shakespeare, the mirror -- Voltaire, the critic -- Milton, the conscience -- Defoe, the journalist -- Goethe, the adventurer -- Byron, the yearning -- Balzac, the historian -- Victor Hugo, the romantic -- Verlaine, the musician -- Dickens, the heart -- Shelley, the voice -- Flaubert, the realist -- Whitman, the prophet -- Poe, the inventor -- Dostoievski, the analyst -- Tolstoi, the painter -- Mark Twain, the first American -- Anatole France, the skeptic -- Proust, the invalid -- George Moore, the man of letters -- Coda: a short history of the development of literature since the Victorian period. |
| Responsibility: | by Burton Rascoe ... |
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