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Titans of literature, from Homer to the present,

Author: Burton Rascoe
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932.
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Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957.
Titans of literature, from Homer to the present.
New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932
(OCoLC)591034967
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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