UNIVERSITY
Mimesis
By ERICH AUERBACH. Translated from the German by
Willard R. Trask.
This book reaches back through two
thousand years of Western literature to discover how the
writer from age to age has solved the most intriguing prob–
lem of his craft-the serious portrayal of everyday reality. By
an analysis of key passages in 20 writers from Homer to
Virginia Woolf, Erich Auerbach traces the revolutions of
thought and taste that have determined the changes in our
concept of realism.
$7.50
Dante's Drama of the Mind
A MODERN READING OF THE "PURGATORIO"
By FRANCIS FERGUSSON, author of The Idea of a Theatre.
"Mr. Fergusson has here approached the poem in ways that
are quite original and new in the history of Dante interpreta–
tion. Time and again, out of positions that have been at–
tained only by modern criticism, he comes up with insights
into the poetic structure of the poem which are freshly il–
luminating even to one who has lived with the work many
years."-Charles
S.
Singleton.
$4.00
Blake's Illustrations
to the Divine Comedy
By ALBERT
S.
ROE.
A detailed study of William Blake's
last great work, giving the history of the drawings and the
first thorough analysis of the entire series. There are full–
page collotype reproductions of the 102 drawings and 7 en–
gravings, in this first unlimited publication. Albert S. Roe is
curator of the Art Collections of Bowdoin College.
Text,
228
pages; illus.,
112
pages.
8~
x
111J4 .
$20.00
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