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Book SynopsisAlthough the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, much of his work is still unknown to them. These twenty-four essays, written over a period of nearly thirty years, range widely in time and scope and co
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*Introduction, pg. ix*Preface to the First Edition, pg. xxv*Preface to the Second Edition, pg. xxix*Virgil, pg. 1*Rudolf Borchardt on Virgil, pg. 18*Goethe as Critic, pg. 27*Goethe as Administrator, pg. 58*Fundamental Features of Goethe's World, pg. 73*Friedrich Schlegel and France, pg. 92*Stefan George in Conversation, pg. 107*To the Memory of Hofmannsthal, pg. 129*George, Hofmannsthal, and Calderon, pg. 142*Hermann Hesse, pg. 169*New Encounter with Balzac, pg. 189*Emerson, pg. 211*Unamuno, pg. 228*Charles Du Bos, pg. 248*Ortega y Gasset, pg. 282*Ramon Perez de Ayala, pg. 318*James Joyce and His Ulysses, pg. 327*TAU. S. Eliot, pg. 355*Toynbee's Theory of History, pg. 400*Jorge Guillen, pg. 429*Remarks on the French Novel, pg. 437*The Young Cocteau, pg. 446*William Goyen, pg. 456*The Ship of the Argonauts, pg. 465*Appendix, pg. 497*Index, pg. 503
