Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Roman
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780548029190
Subjects: European - Italian; Poetry; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism : European - Italian; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: When Greece was at the height of her glory, and Greek literature was in its flower; when Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, all within two brilliant generations, were holding the polite world under the magic spell of their dramatic art, their rough and almost unknown Roman neighbors were just emerging from tradition into history.