The foreign debt of English literature

The following unpretentious chapters are intended to offer to the ordinary student, who has not yet given the matter any particular thought, a first assistance in realizing the...

Next to Homer may come, by no means in importance, but in date, the poet Hesiod. He, too, uses the hexameter line, but with a different tone and movement, and for quite another...

Herodotus, who began to flourish about 450 B.C., and who writes concerning the Persian invasion of Greece, and, by way of preface, tells of Lydia, Babylon, Egypt, Scythia, is st...

The Queen Anne and early Georgian school, then, so far as Greek literature is concerned, owe to it sundry healthy principles of style, not yet properly assimilated; they owe man...

We may now leave types of literary creation and deal with individual authors. It would require a whole book for each of the greater names, if we sought to discover how much of m...

DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE. CHIEF REPRESENTATIVE. DATE. CHIEF WORKS. SOME INFLUENCES ON FOREIGN TRIBUTARIES TO ENGLISH LITERATURE. SOME EFFECTS ON ENGLISH WRITERS. Epic Verse HOME...

Perhaps one of the most deplorable legacies left to us by the influence of Latin literature has been the introduction of Jupiter, Juno, Venus, Cupid, Mars, Vulcan, the nymphs, t...

Narrative poetry, apart from epic, occupies no large space in the literature of Latin. The _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid practically stand alone. These, written in a lighter and more...

In the first place Latin literature is for the most part confessedly imitative. It sets itself foreign models. Its standard of excellence does not so much lie in the consciousne...

DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE. CHIEF REPRESENTATIVES. LATIN NAME. | ENGLISH NAME. DATE. CHIEF WORKS. THEIR RELATION TO GREEK LITERATURE. SOME INFLUENCES ON FOREIGN TRIBUTARIES TO ENG...

(3) The Hebraic influence which came through Christianity is as obvious as it was far-reaching. Every step in the Christianizing of Europe meant the conveying, not only of new s...

The former period corresponds to the era of influence from the Provençal Troubadours and the Northern French Trouvères, from the epic _chansons de gestes_, the several kinds and...

For a time, while the first influences of the Renaissance were being felt, the effect in France was, as in England, a severance from the old subjects and methods, without a full...

Pierre Corneille, the author of _Le Cid_, _Horace_, _Cinna_, _Polyeucte_, and other plays of greater and less note, flourished about the middle of the seventeenth century (the t...

DEPARTMENTS OF LITERATURE. CHIEF REPRESENTATIVES. DATES. TYPICAL WORKS. SOME EFFECTS ON ENGLISH LITERATURE. Epic tales of Chivalry (Chansons de Geste) Various Trouvères (mostly...

Such was the narrative on the face of it. But the narrative is only the cloak for an allegory. Dante, unlike most other Italian writers, was a profoundly pious, and not merely a...

Italian literature has thus been brought back from scholars to the people, when Lodovico Ariosto begins to write at Ferrara. His works are various, including comedies and the in...

DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE. CHIEF REPRESENTATIVES. DATE. TYPICAL WORKS. SOME INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE. Allegorical Poetry (“Visions”) DANTE ALIGHIERI 1265-1321 (_Divina Co...

It is commonly said that it was the ridicule of Miguel Cervantes which destroyed the vogue of the chivalric romances. In reality he is rather the embodiment of his epoch, dealin...

The age of the Meistersänger is followed by the age of Luther, the Reformation, and the Thirty Years’ War. It is an era of the founding of universities, of the spread of learnin...

It was in “matter of Britain” that appeared the special vein of tender chivalry which passed into the romances, first of France, then of Italy and Spain. Not in Germany, not in...

Pope, Alexander, 40, 42, 43, 44, 83, 97, 109, 113, 114, 138, 158, 164, 177, 234, 251, 252; _Dunciad_, 60; _Essay on Criticism_, 6, 58, 60, 90, 159; _Essay on Man_, 8, 245; _Ode...