FOOTNOTES
[1] This essay is republished, with a few changes, from Poet Lore, vol. xxviii, no. 1, pp. 78-104.
[2] My translation of it originally appeared in the Stratford Journal, from which I quote it in its entirety.
[3] Tigrane Yergate, op. cit., p. 710.
[4] Jean Moréas, Voyage de Grèce, 1898.
[5] On Patras, the birth-place of the poet. See [Introduction, p. 13].
[6] On Missolonghi, the place of the poet's childhood. See [Introduction, p. 15].
[7] On the Island of Corfu, one of the most important centers of the literary renaissance of modern Greece.
[8] Iacobos Polylas, 1826-98, translator of the Odyssey and of parts of the Iliad, and an important figure in the struggle for the vernacular. He has also translated some of Shakespeare's plays.
[9] Dionysios Solomos, born in Zante, 1748, died in Corfu, 1857. He is the first great poet of modern Greece. He has written lyrics in Italian and in Greek. Several of his songs have spread as folk songs throughout the Greek world. He is mainly known as the poet of the modern Greek national hymn to Liberty.