Essays on European literature = Kritische Essays zur europäischen Literatur /
Curtius, Ernst Robert,1886-1956.
Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press
[1973]
Translation of the 2d ed. (1954) of Kritische Essays zur europäischen Literatur.
Includes bibliographical references.
Kowal, M. Introduction.--Virgil.--Rudolf Borchardt on Virgil.--Goethe as critic.--Goethe as administrator.--Fundamental features of Goethe's world.--Friedrich Schlegel and France.--Stefan George in conversation.--To the memory of Hofmannsthal.--George, Hofmannsthal, and Calderón.--Hermann Hesse.--New encounter with Balzac.--Emerson.--Unamuno.--Charles Du Bos.--Ortega y Gasset.--Ramón Pérez de Ayala.--James Joyce and his Ulysses.--T. S. Eliot.--Toynbee's theory of history.--Jorge Guillén.--Remarks on the French novel.--The young Cocteau.--William Goyen.--The ship of the Argonauts.
European literature