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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978. Classical tradition. New York : Oxford University Press, 1985, ©1976 (DLC) 85015477 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gilbert Highet |
ISBN: | 9780198020066 0198020066 1280522704 9781280522703 |
OCLC Number: | 252583067 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxxviii, 763 pages) |
Contents: | 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'S CLASSICS; CHAPTER 12. THE RENAISSANCE AND AFTERWARDS: LYRIC POETRY; CHAPTER 13. TRANSITION; CHAPTER 14. THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS CHAPTER 15. A NOTE ON BAROQUECHAPTER 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; BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX |
Responsibility: | by Gilbert Highet. |
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"Highet has assembled a vast quantity of material concerning the manifold aspects of his subject, filled in gaps where no adequate work has been done, and presented a story characterized by lucidity, charm, and scholarly good sense."--Classical Philology"Solidly grounded and solidly built...[Highet] deals with every period, every movement, every individual, and every separate work as an interesting special case for which he tries to find the special explanation."--The New Yorker"Highet has assembled a vast quantity of material concerning the manifold aspects of his subject, filled in gaps where no adequate work has been done, and presented a story characterized by lucidity, charm, and scholarly good sense."--Classical Philology"A magnificent reference book....A noble effort toward the accomplishment of a staggering task."--Western Humanities Review"It is Highet's appreciation of good literature...which gives a special charm to his book...[It] will be read with gratitude by many."--Times Literary Supplement (London)"Solidly grounded and solidly built...[Highet] deals with every period, every movement, every individual, and every separate work as an interesting special case for which he tries to find the special explanation."--The New Yorker"An excellent outline...[an] intelligent, erudite, perceptive interpretation...a book for the times."--The Nation"A prodigious task, demanding learning, judgment, insight, and above all courage. Mr. Highet is to be congratulated on possessing all these....[He] founds his work on a sound knowledge of a vast array of facts and arranges them with great clarity....We may be thankful that Mr. Highet has attempted this task and succeeded, as very few could have, in it."--The Sewanee Review Read more...

