The great tragedy of Euripides and the advent of Marlowe and Shakespeare to the Elizabethan stage, there seems to be the dismal ‘reign of Chaos and old Night’. But the darkness is not really so black as it appears at first sight, and the burst of splendour in Periclean Athens is not completely separated from the renewed glories of Elizabethan England. Between the two we may discern a line of dimly-glowing sparks, never entirely disconnected from the original ...
The Columbia University Course in Literature: Based on the World’s Best Literature (In 34 Volumes)
Vol. I and Vol. II. Wisdom of the East: Introduction/Nicholas Murray Butler. 1. Literature and Civilization/A.H. Thorndike. 2. Oriental literature/Louis H. Gray. 3. Egyptian literature/Francis Llewellyn Griffith and Kate Bradbury Griffith. 4. The literature of Babylonia and Assyria/Emil G.H. Kraeling. 5. The old testament and the Jewish Apocrypha/Crawford H. Toy. 6. Josephus, 37-100 A.D. 7. The Talmud/Max Margolis. 8. Medieval Hebrew literature/Joshua Bloch. 9. ...
