The proper study : essays on Western classics / Edited by Quentin Anderson & Joseph A. Mazzeo.

Author/creator Anderson, Quentin editor.
Other author Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony, 1923- , editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Press, [©1962]
Description606 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Homer : The Iliad or The poem of force / Siomone 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 -- Monaigne : Montaigne / Herbert Luthy -- Shakespeare : Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: the analogy of action / Francis Fergusson -- Cervantes : The orientation of style / Americo Castro -- Milton : On Shakespeare and Milton / William Hazlitt -- Moliere : 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 Thrilling -- 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.
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