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In this "magnificent book" (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of Eu

Although the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European

A ground-breaking investigation into the emergence of new written literatures in the vernacular languages of medieval Europe.

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European lite

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different li