Literature and Western man

pt. 1. The golden globe: Movable types

The Italian scene and Machiavelli

France: Rabelais and Montaigne

England and Shakespeare

Spain and Cervantes

pt. 2. "The order'd garden": "And all was light"

The drama

The novel

The Enlightenment

pt. 3. Shadows of the moon: Rousseau and the romantic age

Germany and Goethe

The English romantics

The romantic movement in France

Russians and others

pt. 4. The broken web: The age and its prophets

The poets

The novelists

The dramatists

pt. 5. The moderns: Background to the books

Mostly before 1914

Brief interlude

Between the wars.