Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe.
 European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Bollingen Series, 180)

Arts & Photography

Ernst Robert Curtius

History & Criticism

Princeton Univ Pr / Bollingen

In this "magnificent book" (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe, with particular emphasis on the Latin Middle Ages. In an extensive new epilogue, drawing on hitherto unpublished material, Peter Godman analyzes the intellectual and political context and character of Curtius's ideas.

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Bollingen Series XXXVI)

Literature & Fiction

Princeton University Press

Ernst Robert Curtis's great study of the forms of mediaevel Latin literature shows how these forms took their origin in classical writings and how, after their mediaeval transformations, they were perpetuated in modern literature. One of his major efforts was to develop a set of principles of literary criticism. He also made a special analysis of the contribution of Latin, both as a living language and as the medium of transmission for antique form and content. Technical procedures such as metaphor and the neglected rhetorical category of topics, together with such conceptual pattern as 'the hero', 'the ideal landscape', and 'the Muses', are fully discussed and illuminated by analogies drawn from Renaissance and modern literatures.

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

Routledge and Kegan Paul

ONLY VOLUME #2. PAPERBACK 1984. SOLID BOOK. NO TEARS. ONLY MARKING IS NAME CARLOS ON INSIDE BLANK PAGE. AGED GRACEFULLY. SMALL STAINS ON BACK PAGE.

Literatura Europea Y Edad Media Latina. 2 Tomos

F.C.E.

Letteratura europea e Medio Evo latino