Sophocles: The Seven Plays in English Verse (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 0267162146
- ISBN-13
- 9780267162147
- Series
- Sophocles
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-29
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Lewis Campbell
Description
Excerpt from Sophocles: The Seven Plays in English Verse The fresh and unimpaired enjoyment of the Beautiful is certainly the aspect of ancient life and literature which most attracted the humanists of the sixteenth century, and still most impresses those amongst our selves who for various reasons desire to point the con trast between Paganism and J udaism. The two great groups of forces vaguely known as the Renaissance and the Revolution have both contributed to this result. Men who were weary of conventionality and of the weight of custom heavy as frost and deep almost as life, ' have longed for the vision of Oread or Dryad glancing through the shade, ' or to hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.' Meanwhile, that in which the Greeks most resembled us, the human heart by which we live, ' for the very reason that it lies so near to us, is too apt to be lost from our conception of them. Another cause of this one-sided view is the illusion pro duced by the contemplation of statuary, together with the unapproachable perfection of form which every relic of Greek antiquity indisputably possesses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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