Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Roman
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781417935482
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Poetry; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; European - Italian
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.