Classical Backgrounds to English Poetry | Greek Literature | Lecture 3

Join the live lectures, book clubs, and poetry community at 🏫 https://versedcommunity.mn.co/ In this lecture I discuss three major endowments that classical Greek literature gave English poetry. The first is a dramatic and interesting representation of human passion as the impetus to action. The second is a spiritual character. The third is literary criticism, a way to understand and evaluate literary art. The lecture is divided as follows: Introduction 0:00-2:48 Homer & Human Passion: 2:49-26:29 Plato & Spiritual Character: 26:30-32:28 Aristotle & Literary Criticism: 32:29-43:26