The Traditions Of European Literature From Homer To Dante By Barrett Wendell PDF Download

Excerpt from The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante Though this book is intended for general read ers, it originated in lectures given at Harvard College between 1904 and 1917. Years of deal ing with Harvard students had shown me not only that Americans now know little of the liter ary traditions of our ancestral Europe, but also that they are seldom aware even of the little they know. Beginning with no more clear pur pose than to help these needs, I gradually came to see my Object more definitely; it was at once to revive knowledge which was sinking beneath the level of consciousness, to indicate the gaps which each man must supply for himself, and to en courage in all the habit of so thinking things to gether instead of scrutinising them apart that each might gradually come habitually to see in perspective whatever he might know or learn about the traditions, historic and literary, which have accompanied our civilisation to the point where we are part of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.