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and the Rise of Capitalism, London, 1926 (new ed. with Preface,
1937); Joachim Wach, The Sociology of Religion, Chicago, 1944.
32. Cf. the criticism of Pitirim A. Sorokin, Contemporary Sociological
Theories, New York, 1928, p. 710.
33. P. A. Sorokin, Fluctuations of Forms of Art, Social and. Cultural
Dynamics, Vol. I, New York, 1937, especially Chapter I.
34. Edwin Berry Burgum, "Literary Form: Social Forces and Innova-
tions," Sewanee Review, XLIX (1941), pp. 325-338 (reprinted in
The Novel and the World's Dilemma, New York, 1947).
35. Fritz Briiggemann, "Der Kampf urn die biirgerliche Welt- und Leb-
ensauffassung in der deutschen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts,"
Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift fur Literaturzvissensehaft und Geistes-
geschichte, III (1925), pp. 94-127.
36. Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abend-
landischen Literatur, Bern, 1946, passim, esp. pp. 76, 94, 494-5.
37. Karl Biicher, Arbeit und Rhythmus, Leipzig, 1896; J. E. Harrison,
Ancient Art and Ritual, New York, 191 3 ;
Themis, Cambridge, 191 2;
George Thomson, Aeschylus and Athens, A Study in the Social Origins
of the Drama, London, 1941, and Marxism and Poetry, London, 1945
(a small pamphlet of great interest, with application to Irish mate-
rials) ; Christopher Caudwell, Illusion and Reality, London, 1937;
Kenneth Burke, Attitudes toward History, New York, 1937; Marett,
Robert R. (ed.), Anthropology and the Classics, Oxford, 1908.
chapter x
Literature and Ideas
1. Hermann Ulrici, Uber Shakespeares dramatische Kunst, 1839.
2. George Boas, Philosophy and Poetry, Wheaton College, Mass., 1932,
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3. T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays, New York, 1932, pp. 11 5-6.
4. E.g., "God's in his Heaven; all's right with the world" is an asser-
tion that God has necessarily created the best of all possible worlds.
"On earth the broken arch; in heaven, a perfect round" is the argument
from the limited to the infinite, from the awareness of incom-
pletion to the possibility of completion, etc.
5. The main theoretical pronouncements are the introduction by A. O.
Lovejoy to The Great Chain of Being, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, pp.
3-23, and "The Historiography of Ideas," Proceedings of the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society, LXXVII (1937-8), pp. 529-43. Reprinted
in Essays in the History of Ideas, Baltimore, 1948, pp. 1-1 3. Cf. also
Marjorie Nicolson, "The History of Literature and the History of