Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Alliance of Latin and English Studies
It is worth remarking here, that what has tended to make Latin and English studies drift apart is our loss of touch with Italian literature. Dante and Boccaccio were the creators, it might almost be said, of modern poetry and prose, including our own from Chaucer downwards. It is needless to mention as sources Petrarch for the English lyric, Ariosto for Spenser, Tasso and Guarini for the whole of English poetry of the seventeenth century. But all those writers were the inheritors and recoverers of the Latin tradition. Both in prose and in poetry, of course, the Latin influence reached us very largely through France; and for this as well as for other reasons, knowledge and study of French is essential towards any scholarly study of English; this however is so obviously true and so fully recognised as hardly to need mention.
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