Titans of literature, from Homer to the present
By: by Burton Rascoe ...
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1932
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780836917758
Subjects: Littérature; Authors; Literature; Histoire et critique; History and criticism
Table of contents: title: Homer and Greek legend --; title: Sophocles and Greek drama --; title: Virgil and Latin poetry --; title: Dante and the medieval mind --; title: Boccaccio and the Renaissance --; title: Villon and medieval music --; title: Montaigne and the average man --; title: Cervantes and the spirit of mockery --; title: Chaucer and the English spirit --; title: Shakespeare, the mirror --; title: Voltaire, the critic --; title: Milton, the conscience --; title: Defoe, the journalist --; title: Goethe, the adventurer --; title: Byron, the yearning --; title: Balzac, the historian --; title: Victor Hugo, the romantic --; title: Verlaine, the musician --; title: Dickens, the heart --; title: Shelley, the voice --; title: Flaubert, the realist --; title: Whitman, the prophet --; title: Poe, the inventor --; title: Dostoievski, the analyst --; title: Tolstoi, the painter --; title: Mark Twain, the first American --; title: Anatole France, the skeptic --; title: Proust, the invalid --; title: George Moore, the man of letters --; title: Coda: a short history of the development of literature since the Victorian period.