The proper study : essays on Western classics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Anderson, Quentin, 1912-2003 (Editor), Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony, 1923- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, [1962]
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Table of Contents:
  • Homer : The Iliad or The poem of force / Simone Weil
  • Homer : Odysseus' scar / Erich Auerbach
  • Aeschylus : Introduction to the Oresteia / Richmond Lattimore
  • Sophocles : Middle tragedy : Sophocles / H.D.F. Kitto
  • Euripedes : Alcestis and her hero / J.A.K. Thomson
  • Thucydides : Mythistoria and the drama / F.M. Cornford
  • Aristophanes : The comic poetry of Aristophanes / Werner Jaeger
  • Plato : Plato and Socrates / Eric Voegelin
  • Aristotle : The function of tragedy / S.H. Butcher
  • Vergil : Tradition and Poetry / W.F. Jackson Knight
  • Marcus Aurelius : An essay on Marcus Aurelius / Matthew Arnold
  • St. Augustine : The world-historical position of Augustine as a teacher of the Church / Adolph Harnack
  • Dante : Dante / George Santayana
  • Machiavelli : Machiavelli / Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • Montaigne : Montaigne / Herbert Lüthy
  • Shakespeare : Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : the analogy of action / Francis Fergusson
  • Cervantes : The orientation of style / Américo Castro
  • Milton : On Shakespeare and Milton / William Hazlitt
  • Molière : Le misanthrope / Martin Turnell
  • Spinoza : Spinoza / Stuart Hampshire
  • Swift : The irony of Swift / F.R. Leavis
  • Goethe : Goethe and the avoidance of tragedy / Erich Heller
  • Wordsworth : The immortality ode / Lionel Trilling
  • Stendhal : Stendhal on love / Jacques Barzun
  • Melville : Melville and Moby-Dick / Richard Chase
  • Dostoevsky : Crime and punishment : a study of Dostoevsky's novel / R.P. Blackmur
  • James : On the portrait of a lady / Dorothy Van Ghent
  • Freud : The emergence of psychological man / Philip Rieff.