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Backing into the future
From Beowulf to Caxton
Ben Jonson and the classical school
Objects of desire
English Literature and Ancient Languages
The rise of formal satire in England under classical influence
Matthew Arnold and the classical tradition
Ancient myth in modern poetry
Classical influences on English poetry
Renaissance artists & antique sculpture
Dignity and decadence
Primitivism and related ideas in antiquity
The anger of Stephen Crane
Epic romance
The mirror of antiquity
Ovid's changing worlds
Milton and the tangles of Neaera's hair
The culture of the High Renaissance
Classic style
Mythology and the Renaissance tradition in English poetry
The sources of Spenser's classical mythology
Pétrarque et l'humanisme
The Renaissance rediscovery of intimacy
Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean satire
The end of ancient Rome
Eros, imitation, and the epic tradition
John Milton's epic invocations
The Mythographic art
Classical Mythology in English Literature
Renaissance artists & antique sculpture
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