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Gilbert Highet •ï¿½60 Items / 13 Books, 10 Articles, 33 Reviews, 4 Poems
The Classical Tradition (1949)
by Gilbert Highet
Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
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Published Reviews
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    The Progress of Poesy (Review)
    George Genzmer
    The Classical Tradition, by Gilbert Highet
    1. The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
    The Nation, January 7, 1950, pp. 16-17
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    Our Debt to Rome (Review)
    C.A. Robinson, Jr.
    The Classical Tradition, by Gilbert Highet
    1. The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
    The Saturday Review, March 4, 1950, p. 21
  3. Books
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    The Story of Language and the Story of the Classics (2 Reviews)
    Edmund Wilson
    The Story of Language, by Mario Pei
    1. The Story of Language by Mario Pei
    2. The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
    The New Yorker, March 11, 1950, pp. 86-89
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    The Atlantic Bookshelf (3 Reviews)
    Potpourri
    1. The School for Wives; Robert; and Genevieve by Andre Gide and Dorothy Bussy
    2. The Strange Life of Charles Waterton, 1782-1865 by Richard Aldington
    3. The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1950, pp. 88-89
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    New Books (3 Reviews)
    Richard H. Rovere
    From April- to July-Madness
    1. The Wall by John Hersey
    2. Pleasure Dome by Lloyd Frankenberg
    3. The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
    The Harpers Monthly, March 1950, pp. 102-107
  6. Books: Part II - Critics and Writers
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    Literature and the Common Reader (7 Reviews)
    Douglas Bush
    Shakespeare's World of Images, by Donald A. Stauffer
    1. Shakespeare's World of Images by Donald A. Stauffer
    2. The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
    3. John Milton, Englishman by James Holly Hanford
    4. The Romantic Imagination by C. Maurice Bowra
    5. The Imagery of Keats and Shelley by Richard Harter Fogle
    6. Chaucer by G.K. Chesterton
    7. Jane Austen by Elizabeth Jenkins
    The New Republic, November 28, 1949, pp. 28-31
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    Pick of the Paperbacks (10 Reviews)
    Caste and Class in a Southern Town, by John Dollard
    1. Caste and Class in a Southern Town by John Dollard
    2. Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo by Stillman Drake and Galileo
    3. The Economic Basis of Politics by Charles A. Beard
    4. On Life and Sex by Havelock Ellis
    5. Pleasures and Days, and Other Writings by Marcel Proust and F.W. Dupee
    6. You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
    7. Man in the Modern Age by Karl Jaspers
    8. A London Life by Henry James
    9. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
    10. The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
    The Saturday Review, March 16, 1957, p. 17
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    The Classics (17 Reviews)
    C.A. Robinson, Jr.
    Digging Our Classical Past
    1. The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World by Michael I. Rostovtzeff
    2. Roman Rule in Asia Minor by David Magie
    3. The Greeks in Bactria and India by W.W. Tarn
    4. The Oxford Classical Dictionary by M. Cary, A.D. Nock, J.D. Denniston, W.D. Ross, and J. Wight Duff, ...
    5. Troy, Vol. I by Carl W. Blegen, John L. Caskey, and Marion Rawson, ...
    6. Mycenae: An Archaeological History and Guide by Alan J.B. Wace
    7. Portrait Sculpture by Evelyn B. Harrison
    8. The Athenian Tribute Lists by Benjamin Dean Meritt, H.T. Wade-Gery, and Malcolm Francis McGregor, ...
    9. A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee
    10. The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
    11. Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture by Werner Jaeger
    12. The Architecture of Ancient Greece by William Bell Dinsmoor
    13. The Iliad of Homer by Richmond Lattimore and Homer
    14. The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome by Andrew Alfoldi
    15. A History of Science by George Sarton
    16. The Exact Sciences in Antiquity by Otto Neugebauer
    17. The Magistrates of the Roman Republic by T. Robert S. Broughton
    The Saturday Review, May 1, 1954, pp. 20-21