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THE TRADITIONAL THEORY OF LITERATURE

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THE TRADITIONAL THEORY

OF LITERATURE

RAY LIVINGSTON

University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

Printed in the United States of America at the

North Central Publishing Company, St. Paul

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-10830

PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN, INDIA, AND PAKISTAN BY THE

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, LONDON, BOMBAY, AND KARACHI

AND IN CANADA BY THOMAS ALLEN, LTD., TORONTO

Quotations from Ernst Robert Curtius's European Literature and the

Foundation, New York; from Coomaraswamy's "Two Passages in Dante's

Paradiso" (Speculum, XI, July 1936) by permission of the Mediaeval

Academy of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts; from Coomaraswamy's

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.