The Great Books  -  Anthony O'Hear

Frim The Iliad and The Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A journey through 2,500 years of the West's classic literature

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KORTE INHOUD

We begin with Homer, whose poems of epic struggle have made him the father of Western literature. After Greek tragedy, Plato, and Virgil's Aeneid comes Ovid, whose encyclopaedic Metamorphoses is an inexhaustible source for European art and literature. Via St Augustine we reach Dante, the author of the Divine Comedy, a tour, by turns terrifying and sublime, through Hell and Purgatory and onto an ecstatic vision of Paradise. Chaucer, Shakspeare, Cervantes, Milton, Pascal, Racine and finally Goethe complete th...
2008 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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Non-fictie > Taal- en letterkunde >> Boeken over boeken, literatuur, taal

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2008 Uitgever: Icon Books 463 paginas Taal: Engels