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14th c

• Dante and the Ladder - Comments (1)
• Dante the Pilgrim - Comments (0)
• Gawain and Beowulf - Comments (0)
• Courtly Love Conventions - Comments (0)
• But Seriously… Chaucer’s “Ernest Game” in The Canterbury Tales - Comments (0)
• On Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Comments (1)

15th c

• Courtly Love Conventions - Comments (0)

16th c

• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Courtly Love Conventions - Comments (0)

17th c

• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Molière’s Tartuffe - Comments (0)
• Allusion in Neoclassical Poetry - Comments (0)
• Romantic Literature - Comments (0)
• The Heroic Couplet - Comments (0)
• Vico’s Homer - Comments (0)
• Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel: Some History - Comments (0)

18th c

• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Boredom, Poverty, Vice - Comments (0)
• Allusion in Neoclassical Poetry - Comments (0)
• Romantic Literature - Comments (0)
• The Sorrows of Young Werther - Comments (1)
• Rousseau’s Confessions - Comments (1)
• The Rape of the Lock: A Study Guide - Comments (0)
• Some Notes on the Devil - Comments (0)

19th c

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• The Gothic - Comments (1)
• Goethe’s Faust - Comments (0)
• Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - Comments (0)
• René - Comments (1)
• Signs of the Times - Comments (0)
• A Defense of Poetry - Comments (1)

1st c

• The Aeneid: General Notes - Comments (1)
• Questions for Consideration: The Aeneid - Comments (0)
• To Rome - Comments (0)
• Aeneas and Dido - Comments (0)

20th c

• Frames in Kafka’s Metamorphosis - Comments (1)
• Some Notes on the Devil - Comments (0)
• Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Modernism - Comments (0)
• Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” - Comments (1)

4th c

• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)

4th c BCE

• Dante and the Ladder - Comments (1)

5th c BCE

• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• Aristotle’s Poetics of Purging - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Phaedrus: Talk of Love - Comments (0)
• Patriarchal Terrorism in Medea - Comments (1)
• Character v. Fate in Oedipus Rex - Comments (0)
• Questions for Consideration: Oedipus Rex - Comments (0)

Aesthetics

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• Aristotle’s Poetics of Purging - Comments (0)
• Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” - Comments (1)
• Vico’s Homer - Comments (0)

American

• Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Modernism - Comments (0)

Ancient

• Aristotle’s Poetics of Purging - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Phaedrus: Talk of Love - Comments (0)
• Patriarchal Terrorism in Medea - Comments (1)
• Character v. Fate in Oedipus Rex - Comments (0)
• Questions for Consideration: Medea - Comments (0)
• The Iliad: Rage and War - Comments (0)
• Notes on Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• That Damn Flood - Comments (0)
• Hector: Family Man, but Hero First - Comments (0)
• Fighting Beyond Their Fates - Comments (0)

Artistic Movement

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• Aristotle’s Poetics of Purging - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Phaedrus: Talk of Love - Comments (0)
• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)

Biography

• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)
• Rousseau’s Confessions - Comments (1)

British

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - Comments (0)
• Allusion in Neoclassical Poetry - Comments (0)
• Romantic Literature - Comments (0)
• Signs of the Times - Comments (0)

Classical

• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• The Aeneid: General Notes - Comments (1)
• Questions for Consideration: The Aeneid - Comments (0)
• To Rome - Comments (0)
• Aeneas and Dido - Comments (0)

Comedy

• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Molière’s Tartuffe - Comments (0)

Czech

• Frames in Kafka’s Metamorphosis - Comments (1)

Dialogue

• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• Plato’s Phaedrus: Talk of Love - Comments (0)

Drama

• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Patriarchal Terrorism in Medea - Comments (1)
• Character v. Fate in Oedipus Rex - Comments (0)
• Goethe’s Faust - Comments (0)
• Molière’s Tartuffe - Comments (0)
• Questions for Consideration: Medea - Comments (0)
• Questions for Consideration: Oedipus Rex - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Tragedy - Comments (0)

Enlightenment

• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Boredom, Poverty, Vice - Comments (0)
• Molière’s Tartuffe - Comments (0)
• Enlightenment Ideas - Comments (0)
• Essay on Critical Man - Comments (0)
• Vico’s Homer - Comments (0)

Epic

• The Iliad: Rage and War - Comments (0)
• Notes on Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• That Damn Flood - Comments (0)
• Hector: Family Man, but Hero First - Comments (0)
• Fighting Beyond Their Fates - Comments (0)
• Ecological Themes in Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• The Taming of Nature in Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• The Return of Odysseus - Comments (0)
• The Odyssey: Book 11 Notes - Comments (0)
• The Odyssey: Book 10 Notes - Comments (0)

Essay

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)

French

• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Boredom, Poverty, Vice - Comments (0)
• Molière’s Tartuffe - Comments (0)
• Romantic Literature - Comments (0)
• René - Comments (1)
• Rousseau’s Confessions - Comments (1)

Genre

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• Plato’s Phaedrus: Talk of Love - Comments (0)
• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)

German

• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Goethe’s Faust - Comments (0)
• Romantic Literature - Comments (0)
• The Sorrows of Young Werther - Comments (1)
• Some Notes on the Devil - Comments (0)

Gothic

• The Gothic - Comments (1)

Greek

• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• Aristotle’s Poetics of Purging - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Phaedrus: Talk of Love - Comments (0)
• Patriarchal Terrorism in Medea - Comments (1)
• Character v. Fate in Oedipus Rex - Comments (0)
• Questions for Consideration: Medea - Comments (0)
• The Iliad: Rage and War - Comments (0)
• Hector: Family Man, but Hero First - Comments (0)
• Fighting Beyond Their Fates - Comments (0)
• The Return of Odysseus - Comments (0)

Italian

• Dante and the Ladder - Comments (1)
• Dante the Pilgrim - Comments (0)
• Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Modernism - Comments (0)
• Vico’s Homer - Comments (0)

Medieval

• Allegory - Comments (1)
• Gawain and Beowulf - Comments (0)
• Courtly Love Conventions - Comments (0)
• But Seriously… Chaucer’s “Ernest Game” in The Canterbury Tales - Comments (0)
• On Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Comments (1)

Modernist

• Frames in Kafka’s Metamorphosis - Comments (1)
• Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Modernism - Comments (0)
• Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” - Comments (1)

Nationality

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• Aristotle’s Poetics of Purging - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Phaedrus: Talk of Love - Comments (0)
• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)

Neoclassical

• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)
• Allusion in Neoclassical Poetry - Comments (0)
• The Rape of the Lock: A Study Guide - Comments (0)
• The Heroic Couplet - Comments (0)
• Essay on Critical Man - Comments (0)
• Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel: Some History - Comments (0)
• The Satirist’s Character and Role - Comments (0)

Novel

• Frames in Kafka’s Metamorphosis - Comments (1)
• Dante and the Ladder - Comments (1)
• Some Notes on the Devil - Comments (0)

Poetry

• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)
• Goethe’s Faust - Comments (0)
• The Iliad: Rage and War - Comments (0)
• Notes on Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - Comments (0)
• Allusion in Neoclassical Poetry - Comments (0)
• Romantic Literature - Comments (0)
• A Defense of Poetry - Comments (1)
• That Damn Flood - Comments (0)
• Hector: Family Man, but Hero First - Comments (0)

Politics

• Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Modernism - Comments (0)

Pre-history

• Questions for Consideration: Medea - Comments (0)
• The Iliad: Rage and War - Comments (0)
• Notes on Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• That Damn Flood - Comments (0)
• Hector: Family Man, but Hero First - Comments (0)
• Fighting Beyond Their Fates - Comments (0)
• Ecological Themes in Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• The Taming of Nature in Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• The Return of Odysseus - Comments (0)
• The Odyssey: Book 11 Notes - Comments (0)

Prose

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)
• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)
• Frames in Kafka’s Metamorphosis - Comments (1)
• Boredom, Poverty, Vice - Comments (0)
• Romantic Literature - Comments (0)
• The Sorrows of Young Werther - Comments (1)

Renaissance

• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Dante and the Ladder - Comments (1)
• Dante the Pilgrim - Comments (0)
• Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Modernism - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Tragedy - Comments (0)

Rhetoric

• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)

Roman

• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)
• The Aeneid: General Notes - Comments (1)
• Questions for Consideration: The Aeneid - Comments (0)
• To Rome - Comments (0)
• Aeneas and Dido - Comments (0)

Romantic

• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• Goethe’s Faust - Comments (0)
• Preface to the Lyrical Ballads - Comments (0)
• Romantic Literature - Comments (0)
• The Sorrows of Young Werther - Comments (1)
• René - Comments (1)
• Signs of the Times - Comments (0)
• A Defense of Poetry - Comments (1)
• Rousseau’s Confessions - Comments (1)
• Dante and the Ladder - Comments (1)

Russian

• Some Notes on the Devil - Comments (0)

Science

• Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Modernism - Comments (0)

Sumerian

• Notes on Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• That Damn Flood - Comments (0)
• Ecological Themes in Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• The Taming of Nature in Gilgamesh - Comments (0)
• Friendship and Two Epics - Comments (0)
• Questions for Consideration: Gilgamesh - Comments (1)

Theory

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• Aristotle’s Poetics of Purging - Comments (0)
• Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Modernism - Comments (0)
• Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” - Comments (1)
• Vico’s Homer - Comments (0)

Time Period

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)
• Shelley’s Defense of Poetry - Comments (0)
• On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment” - Comments (0)
• Plato Revisited: Augustine’s Confessions - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Republic, Book X Notes - Comments (2)
• Aristotle’s Poetics of Purging - Comments (0)
• Plato’s Phaedrus: Talk of Love - Comments (0)
• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Neoclassicism: Major Ideas - Comments (0)

Tragedy

• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Patriarchal Terrorism in Medea - Comments (1)
• Character v. Fate in Oedipus Rex - Comments (0)
• Questions for Consideration: Medea - Comments (0)
• Questions for Consideration: Oedipus Rex - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Tragedy - Comments (0)

Victorian

• Notes on Arnold’s “Modern Literature” - Comments (0)
• Arnold’s Disinterested Critic - Comments (0)

Vocabulary

• Revenge Tragedy - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Comedy - Comments (0)
• Allegory - Comments (1)
• The Gothic - Comments (1)
• Satire - Comments (0)
• Xenia: A Religious Duty - Comments (1)
• Epic Poetry - Comments (2)
• The Heroic Ideal - Comments (1)
• Archetype - Comments (0)
• Some Views on Myth - Comments (0)