The Classical tradition : Greek and roman influences on western literature - Highet, Gilbert (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1951)
The Fall of the Greek and Roman civilization -- 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
Keywords: 700 a.C.-1949; Estudios literarios; Formas y géneros literarios; Tradición escrita; Mitología; Traducción; Reino Unido; Italia; Francia