The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature

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. By Gilbert Highet ; With A New Foreword By Harold Bloom. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 550-555) And Index.