FRANK SEWALL
“Le secret de l'art grec réside là, dans cette finesse à dégager la ligne unique et nécessaire qui évoque la vie et en détermine du coup comme le type éternel”
PAUL BOURGET
LONDON
OSGOOD, McILVAINE & CO.
45 ALBEMARLE ST., W.
1893
The De Vinne Press, New-York, U. S. A.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Preface | [vii] | |
| Essays | ||
| i. | Giosuè Carducci and the Hellenic Reaction in Italy | [1] |
| ii. | Carducci and the Classic Realism | [29] |
| Translations | ||
| i. | Roma | [57] |
| ii. | Hymn to Satan | [58] |
| iii. | Homer | [66] |
| iv. | Virgil | [67] |
| v. | Invocation to the Lyre | [68] |
| vi. | Sun and Love | [70] |
| vii. | To Aurora | [71] |
| viii. | Ruit Hora | [76] |
| ix. | The Ox | [77] |
| x. | To Phœbus Apollo | [78] |
| xi. | Hymn to the Redeemer | [81] |
| xii. | Outside the Certosa | [84] |
| xiii. | Dante—Sonnet | [85] |
| xiv. | In a Gothic Church | [86] |
| xv. | Innanzi, innanzi! | [88] |
| xvi. | Sermione | [89] |
| xvii. | To a Horse | [93] |
| xviii. | A Dream in Summer | [94] |
| xix. | On a Saint Peter's Eve | [97] |
| xx. | The Mother | [99] |
| xxi. | “Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto” | [101] |
| xxii. | Carnival. | |
| Voice from the Palace | [102] | |
| Voice from the Hovel | [103] | |
| Voice from the Banquet | [105] | |
| Voice from the Garret | [106] | |
| Voice from Beneath | [107] | |
| xxiii. | Sonnet to Petrarch | [109] |
| xxiv. | Sonnet to Goldoni | [110] |
| xxv. | Sonnet to Alfieri | [111] |
| xxvi. | Sonnet to Monti | [112] |
| xxvii. | Sonnet to Niccolini | [113] |
| xxviii. | In Santa Croce | [114] |
| xxix. | Voice of the Priests | [115] |
| xxx. | Voice of God | [116] |
| xxxi. | On my Daughter's Marriage | [117] |
| xxxii. | At the Table of a Friend | [119] |
| xxxiii. | Dante | [120] |
| xxxiv. | On the Sixth Centenary of Dante | [126] |
| xxxv. | Beatrice | [127] |
| xxxvi. | “A questi dí prima io la vidi. Uscia” | [130] |
| xxxvii. | “Non son quell'io che già d'amiche cene” | [131] |
| xxxviii. | The Ancient Tuscan Poetry | [132] |
| xxxix. | Old Figurines | [133] |
| xl. | Madrigal | [134] |
| xli. | Snowed Under | [135] |