Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
VICISSITUDES OF SICILIAN GOVERNMENT.--GLANCES AT PHALARIS, STESICHORUS, EMPEDOCLES, HIERO I., SIMONIDES, EPICHARMUS, DIONYSIUS I., DAMON AND PYTHIAS, DAMOCLES, DIONYSIUS II., DION, PLATO, AGATHOCLES, HANNIBAL, HIERO II., THEOCRITUS, ARCHIMEDES, MARCELLUS, VERRES; AND PARTICULA...
VICISSITUDES OF SICILIAN GOVERNMENT.--GLANCES AT PHALARIS, STESICHORUS, EMPEDOCLES, HIERO I., SIMONIDES, EPICHARMUS, DIONYSIUS I., DAMON AND PYTHIAS, DAMOCLES, DIONYSIUS II., DI...
4. CHAPTER IV. THEOCRITUS.5. CHAPTER V. THEOCRITUS.--(CONCLUDED.)SPECIMENS OF THE PATHOS AND PASTORAL OF THEOCRITUS.--THE CYCLOPS IN LOVE.--POETICAL FEELING AMONG UNEDUCATED CLASSES IN THE SOUTH.--PASSAGES FROM THEOCRITUS’S FIRST IDYLL.--HIS...
6. CHAPTER VI. NORMAN TIMES--LEGEND OF KING ROBERT.7. CHAPTER VII. ITALIAN AND ENGLISH PASTORAL.8. CHAPTER VIII. ENGLISH PASTORAL--(CONTINUED); AND SCOTCH PASTORAL.9. CHAPTER IX. ENGLISH PASTORAL.--(CONCLUDED.)10. CHAPTER X. RETURN TO SICILY AND MOUNT ÆTNA.11. CHAPTER XI. BEES.THE BEAUTIFUL NEVER TO BE THANKED TOO MUCH, OR TO BE SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSED.--BEES AND THEIR ELEGANCE.--THEIR ADVICE TO AN ITALIAN POET.--WAXEN TAPERS.--A BEE DRAMA.--MASSACRES...
12. CHAPTER XII. MISCELLANEOUS FEELINGS RESPECTING SICILY, ITS MUSIC,DANTE’S EVENING.--AVE MARIA OF BYRON.--THE SICILIAN VESPERS.-- NOTHING “INFERNAL” IN NATURE.--SICILIAN MARINER’S HYMN.-- INVOCATION FROM COLERIDGE.--PAGAN AND ROMAN CATHOLIC WOR...
13. CHAPTER I.Passing one day by the shop of Messrs. Fortnum and Mason in Piccadilly, we beheld in the window a little blue jar, labelled, “Sicilian Honey.”--It was a jar of very humble prete...
14. CHAPTER II.As it is good to have a plan and system in everything, whatever may be the miscellaneousness of its nature, we shall treat of our subjects in chronological order, beginning with...
15. CHAPTER III.VICISSITUDES OF SICILIAN GOVERNMENT.--GLANCES AT PHALARIS, STESICHORUS, EMPEDOCLES, HIERO I., SIMONIDES, EPICHARMUS, DIONYSIUS I., DAMON AND PYTHIAS, DAMOCLES, DIONYSIUS II., DI...
16. CHAPTER IV.Pastoral poetry is supposed to have originated in Sicily, at one and the same time with comedy. At all events, it was perfected there. Comedy is understood to have been suggeste...
17. CHAPTER V.SPECIMENS OF THE PATHOS AND PASTORAL OF THEOCRITUS.--THE CYCLOPS IN LOVE.--POETICAL FEELING AMONG UNEDUCATED CLASSES IN THE SOUTH.--PASSAGES FROM THEOCRITUS’S FIRST IDYLL.--HIS...
18. CHAPTER VI.In the glance at the ancient history of Sicily in our third chapter, we have seen that the Greek and Roman sway was succeeded by that of the Saracens. They were masters of the i...
19. CHAPTER VIIThe best pastoral is often written when the author least intends it. A completer feeling of the country and of a shepherd’s life is given us in a single passage of the _Jerusale...
20. CHAPTER VIII.The title and story of the _Sad Shepherd_ of Ben Jonson, in combination with those of the _Faithful Shepherd_ (_Pastor Fido_) of Guarini, appear to have suggested to Fletcher hi...
21. CHAPTER IX.The only undramatic pastorals in the language worth mention are those of Browne, a young poet, who wrote in the beginning of the reign of James the First. He won the praises of...
22. CHAPTER X.In now emphatically returning to Sicily, though we have never been entirely absent from it, while discussing the pastoral poets of other countries, we shall round our subject pr...
23. CHAPTER XI.THE BEAUTIFUL NEVER TO BE THANKED TOO MUCH, OR TO BE SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSED.--BEES AND THEIR ELEGANCE.--THEIR ADVICE TO AN ITALIAN POET.--WAXEN TAPERS.--A BEE DRAMA.--MASSACRES...
24. CHAPTER XII.DANTE’S EVENING.--AVE MARIA OF BYRON.--THE SICILIAN VESPERS.--NOTHING “INFERNAL” IN NATURE.--SICILIAN MARINER’S HYMN.--INVOCATION FROM COLERIDGE.--PAGAN AND ROMAN CATHOLIC WORSH...