Comparative Literature

abstract allegorical ancient Arab Aristophanes artist Athenian Athens Attic Bráhmans Chinese drama choral song chorus Christian city commonwealth clan classical comedy compared conceptions contrast criticism culture dance divine drama dramatist early English epic epic poetry Euripides European example expression fact feelings feudal Greece Greek Hebrew Homeric human hymns ideal ideas Iliad illustrate imagination imitation impersonal individual character individualised Indra influences K. O. Müller Khorovods kinship language less literary lyric marks Maruts medieval Menander ment metres morality national literature observed organisation personages physical nature Pindar Plautus plays poem poet poetic poetry progress prose religious Rig-Veda Roman Rome sacred Sanskrit says sentiment of Nature Shakspere singing social and individual social conditions social spirit Sophocles spectacle theatre Theocritus thought tion tragedy translated tribes truth unity verse Victor de Laprade Victor Hugo vidual village community women words world-literature worship