Table of Contents

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Editor's note: comparative literature in Britain; Part I. The Literary Canon: 1. Living in the metaphor of fiction (opening address) J. P. Stern; 2. The critical realism of Francesco De Sanctis René Wellek; 3. Tragic ends of lovers: medieval Islam and the Latin West M. A. Manzalaoui; 4. The encyclopaedic tradition, the cosmological epic, and the validation of the medieval romance Peter W. Hurst; 5. Of diamonds and dunghills: Voltaire's defence of the French classical canon (a bicentennial essay) David Williams; 6. The German Bildungsroman and 'The Great Tradition' Martin Swales; 7. French and American sources of Victorian realism Christopher Heywood; Part II. Translation in the Canon of W. H. Auden: 1. A translation of 'The Sun Song' W. H. Auden; 2. Englishing the Edda Peter H. Salus; 3. A translation of three poems by Erik Lindgren W. H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg; 4. The canon of literary modernism: a note on abstraction in the poetry of Erik Lindegren Göran Printz-Påhlson; 5. W. H. Auden: 'In Memory of Ernst Toller' Harald H. Ohlendorf; 6. Translating with W. H. Auden: Gunnar Ekelöf's last poems Leif Sjöberg; Part III. Essay Reviews: 1. Goethe in English. On recent translations: Randall Jarrell, Faust and David Luke, The Roman Elegies Michael Hamburger; 2. Reason and ritual in Greek tragedy: on René Girard, Violence and the Sacred and Marcel Detienne, The Garden of Adonis Richard Gordon; 3. The longest way with the dissenters: a review of Donald Davie's Clark Lectures Elinor Shaffer; Books received; Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain: 1975 and 1976.

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