Greek and Roman influences on Western literature /
by Gilbert Highet ; with a new foreword by Harold Bloom.
xl, 763 pages ;
21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 550-705) and index.
The Dark Ages : English literature -- The Middle Ages : French literature -- Dante and pagan antiquity -- Towards the Renaissance : Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer -- The Renaissance : translation -- The Renaissance : drama -- The Renaissance : epic -- The Renaissance : pastoral and romance -- Rabelais and Montaigne -- Shakespeare's classics -- The Renaissance and afterwards : lyric poetry -- Transition -- The battle of the books -- A note on Baroque -- Baroque tragedy -- Satire -- Baroque prose -- The time of revolution -- Parnassus and antichrist -- A century of scholarship -- The symbolist poets and James Joyce -- The reinterpretation of the myths.