The classical tradition : [electronic resource] Greek and Roman influences on western literature / Gilbert Highet.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; The Classial Tradition; Copyright; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 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 Renaissane Translation; 7 The Renaissance Drama; 8 The Renaissance Epic; 9 the Renaissance Pastoral and Romance; 10 Rabelais And Montaigne; 11 Sshakespeare'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 Revolution20 Parnassus and Antichrist; 21 A Century of Scholarship; 22 The Symbolist Poets and James Joyce; 23 The Reinterpretation of the Myths; 24 Conclusion; Breif Bibliography; Notes; Index.

A monumental work of literary scholarship, reissued with a legacy-establishing foreword by Harold Bloom.