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FURTHER READING

Anderson, Warren D. Matthew Arnold and the Classical Tradition. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1965, 293 p.

Examines Arnold's fascination with the classical tradition, particularly his interest in the culture of ancient Greece.

Björk, Lennart. "Thomas Hardy's 'Hellenism'." In Papers on Language and Literature Presented to Alvar Ellegard and Erik Frykman, edited by Sven Bäckman and Gören Kjellmer, pp. 46-58. Göteborg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1985.

Traces several possible sources for the Hellenism that appears in several of Hardy's novels and contends that it functions as "a criterion against which nineteenth-century life, and view of life, is measured."

Clarke, G. W., ed. Rediscovering Hellenism: The Hellenic Inheritance and the English Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, 264 p.

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Overviews
4. The Meanings Of Hellenism
5. The Literary Influence
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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