The proper study : essays on Western classics /
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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.