Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- 1 Chaucer and Virgil: Two Portraits of Dido -- 2 Shakespeare and Plautus: Two Twin Comedies -- 3 Pope and Horace: Two Epistles to Augustus -- 4 Tennyson and Lucretius: Two Attitudes to Atomism -- 5 Pound and Propertius: Two Former Moderns -- APPENDIX: Professor Hale and Homage as a Document of Cultural Transition -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
In his preface Rudd writes: 'Everyone knows of the Classical Tradition - comprehending it is another matter.' This book brings it closer to our understanding.
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English literature-Roman influences. English literature-History and criticism. Comparative literature-English and Latin. Comparative literature-Latin and English. Classicism-Great Britain. Rome-In literature.