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Exemplary comparison from Homer to Petrarch / Olive Sayce.
Van Pelt Library PN228.S5 .S39 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sayce, Olive.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil.
- Homer.
- Simile.
- Rhetoric, Medieval.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Poetry, Medieval.
- Latin poetry--History and criticism.
- Latin poetry.
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--History and criticism.
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
- Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
- Virgil--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 407 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2008.
- Summary:
- A magisterial survey, across the entire European literary tradition to the early fourteenth century, of exemplary figures in literary tradition.
- Contents:
- 1 Homer: The Iliad and the Odyssey 9
- 2 Virgil: The Aeneid 29
- 3 Latin Poets from Catullus to Ovid 38
- 4 Latin Poets from Antiquity to the Middle Ages 84
- 5 The Troubadour Poets 141
- 6 The Trouvere Poets 199
- 7 The German Poets 238
- 8 The Sicilian and Italian Poets 288.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [356]-374) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1843840995
- 9781843840992
- OCLC:
- 141386248
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