The Englishman in Greece;

H. S M., M H. S.

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The Englishman Greece LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA PRESENTED BY EDWIN CORLEMRS. i i THE ENGLISHMAN pri TN i GREECE I Being a Collection g of ^ The Verse oFmany English Poets M'^ith an hitrodiiction by SIR RENNELL RODD S OXFORD g rj ///«.f, . . 'J.Milton6. 859-89) 49 ' So did he feel,who pull'd the17- 'boughs aside stood tip-(/ toe upon a little hill, 151- Kccits 50204) J. //. Coleridgei8. Sonnet 52 'A the early19. picture 'twas of ' {Evenings T. Mooredays in Greece) . 52 20. To a Greek Girl .... Austin Dobson 54 21. The Violet Crown Sir Rennell Rodd 55 22. Athens {Ode to Liberty, iv-vi) P. B. Shelley 56 (^^^/;^?w ; an Ode). . J. C. Stviftburne23- 58 On seeing the Elgin Marbles. Keats24. 64J. To Athens {Corsair, in, i, ii) . Lord Byron25- 64 6626. Athens {Erechtheus, 95-150) . A. C. Swinburne ' ' Lord Byron 68Maid of Athens . . . .27. /F. S. Landor28. To Corinth 69 //'. Wordszvorth29. Corinth 7 30- Parnassus Harold, i, Ix-lxii) Lord Byron{Childe Jl from High Priest of31- the Apollo Virgin of Delphi L. Mooreto a 73 Eleusis 4. C. Sivinburnc32. At 76 The Theatre at Argos. . . J. de Fere 8333- Rodd S3Misolonghi Sir Rennell34- The Hellespont35- Lord Byron S5(Bride Abydus, 11, i-iv) .of M.Palladium Arnold 8736. 10 ' CONTENTS No. PAGE Athena Speaks37. {Erechtheui\ 1 .7. C. Szvinbiirnc S8644-1738) . 38. Athena {Aiulroiiirdd, C. Kingslcv419-493) 91 Sonnet /^. Wordsworth39. 96 ' '40. The Gods are happy {The Strayed RcvfUcr, . M. Arnold130-297) 96 41.

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• English poetry
• Greece

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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The Englishman
GreeceLIBRARY
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA
PRESENTED BY
EDWIN CORLEMRS.i i
THE ENGLISHMAN pri
TN i
GREECE I
Being a Collection g
of ^
The Verse oFmany English Poets
M'^ith an hitrodiiction
by
SIR RENNELL RODD
S OXFORD g
rj <iAt the Clarendon Press %HENRY FROWDE, M.A
PUBLISHER TO THE UNI\ERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK
TORONTO AND MEI,BOITRNENOTE
gratctully acknowledgescompiler permissionTHE
to make use of some poems still in copyright
Bell & for byTo Messrs. George Sons, the poem
T. Ashe entitled Cleobis cincl Bito.
To Messrs. Constable & Co. and to Messrs. Scribner
& Co,, for two poems by George Meredith.
To Mr. Austin Dobson, for three of his poems.
To Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., for two poems
by Mr. Andrew Lang.
forTo Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Clough's Actaeon.
for his poem TheTo Mr. T. Sturge Moore, entitled
Finedrcsst'r.
To Mr. Robert Ross, for Oscar Wilde's poem entitled
Impression de Voyage.
To Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., for two poems by
Robert Browning.
To the Trustees of the late William Morris, for four of
his poems.
for poem byTo Lady Leighton Warren, the Lord de
Tabley.
Theodore Watts-Dunton, for nine poems byTo Mr.
A. Swinburne.C.
also oflfers his sincere thanks to Professor E. deHe
Selincourt, the Rev. G. K. A. Bell, and Mr. Hugli
Cass for valuable suggestions and criticisms.
It would have been pleasant to include the whole of
Hero and Leander, and the whole of Hyperion
;
of space, however, preventedconsiderations this,
the attempt to make selections from eitherand
unsuccessful.proved
H. S. M.INTRODUCTION
literary record of the Englishman in GreeceTHE
offers a less copious material from which to select
than that of the Englishman in Italy, whichto cherished
land, throughout the century but recently closed, our
most illustrious singers have dedicated so much of their
affection and genius. With the exception of Byron the
greater English poets have known Greece only in the
spirit, though Keats indeed might almost be regarded
as one born in exile hisfrom appropriate country, con-
sumed with a perpetual longing for the Latmos and
Olympos of his dreams. And now that the highways and
waterways are open, that communications easy and secure
have unveiled the hidden charms of the storied land, it
would almost seem as though the fountains of inspiration
were dry. A selection from the works of English authors
on Greece must therefore inevitably rather reflect the
classic spirit than reveal the living character.
And yet there is no country which should appeal more
directly theto poet, not alone for the wealth of tradition
which makes each shifting scene the home of myth or
story endeared by ineffaceable association, alonenot for
the unrivalled beauty of the mountain forms and the deep
indented valleys through which the sea winds into the
heart of the land, for the marvel of tone and colour with
which the sun invests the clear outlines, transformingINTRODUCTION
and cape and island with the intensity of changingridge
gems, but also because there still survives in the Greece
of to-day the living touch with a vanished world. In
of life andliighlands still uninvaded by the stream
staraction, in sequestered villages of the islands which
find a peoplethe sea of many memories, you may still
and almost the same perceptionswho feel see with
sensibilities as those whose long dead voices arcand
in the little lyrics of the Anthology. Very nearrecorded
them still appears the elemental spirit which it is illto
to offend, the malignant influence of natural forces, the
weirdness of the noontide hour, the tutelary genius
haunting the ancient tree or the venerable ruins of
antiquity, the sense of the strange vicissitudes to which
man is exposedwhen human companionship is absent. To
the peasant of the hills the Nereid is still no empty name,
Theand the Moirai are still present at the hour of birth.
thatshepherd dreads the vision of a goat-like monster
rain-passes through his flocks in spring. When thesudden
old wives whispercloud darkens the mountain-side the
mist, escorting thethat Charos is passing in a wreath of
dead on their sunless journey.
with truth thatOnly a few years ago it might be said
wrought little change in the valleys thattime had but
underlie the mountains whose very names are an im-
mortal heritage. The primitive agricultural tools of
Hesiod's farmer were still in use the housewife's arts,
;
the structure of the rustic loom, had scarcely altered since
Penelope wove the shroud for the ancient Laertes. An
ancient language still essentially the same is rhythmic
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