^#smrgSAHAF Our Heritage of World Literature - 1957

Our Heritage of World Literature has been prepared in the belief that a certain rather definite part of the literature of the world has come to belong to our cultural inheritance, not confined to works written in English. Homer and the Bible, Æschylus and Dante, Cervantes and Molière, are as truly within our great literary tradition as are Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. Writers in foreign tongues have so much vitality that even under the handicap of translation they have entered the bloodstream of our culture. For all authors, substantial selection have been provided wherever possible. This provides the reader with knowledge of important writers and movements, without being overwhelmed by details. Taken together, the introductions constitute a brief history of comparative literature.