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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1885. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... OF Mr T. FISHER UNWIN'S PUBLICATIONS. £ EUPHORION: Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance. By Vernon Lee, Author of "Ottilie," &c. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo., cloth extra............... I ' The book is bold, extensive in scope, and replete with welldefined and unhackneyed ideas, clear impressions, and vigorous and persuasive modes of writing.... Large questions have been scrutinized in a comprehensive spirit, and are treated with both breadth and minuteness, according to the scale of the work. This will be apparent from a list of articles in the two volumes. After an introduction comes 'The Sacrifice,' 'The Italy of the Elizabethan Dramatists,' 'The Outdoor Poetry,' and 'Symmetria Prisca.'... 'The Portrait Art,' 'The School of Boiardo.'... Lastly comes the longest essay of all, 'Mediaeval Love,' filling nearly one hundred pages. This is certainly a masterly performance, going over a wide field, and showing at every stage abundant discrimination."--Athentsum. "It is richly suggestive, stimulating, and helpful. No student can afford to pass it by, and no library of importance should be without it. By the side of Hallam's volumes and Mr. Addington Symonds' History it will be handy as a supplement and as a kind of appendix; and as such we very cordially recommend it."--British Quarterly Review. "It is a distinct advance on Vernon Lee's previous work. The impressions it records are as vividly individual as ever, the knowledge which informs it is fuller and riper. It deals with a period incomparably more interesting than the 'teacup times of hood and hoop,' through whose mazes her first work led us so pleasantly; and it has more unity and continuity than 'Belcaro.' Its title is most happily chosen, since the studies all converge upon that mystic un...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217404669
- ISBN 13 9780217404662
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages70
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