Essays on European Literature

ISBN: 9780691618883 出版年：2015 页码：538 Curtius, Ernst Robert Princeton University Press

Although 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 consider some of the greatest figures in european literature, among them virgil, goethe, balzac, joyce, eliot, ortega y gasset, and hesse. The essays show the qualities that made curtius one of the great critics of our age: his lucid, penetrating mind, his comprehensive erudition, his cosmopolitan outlook, and above all his passionate concern for european culture.