The Classical Journal, 1910-11, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Classical Journal, 1910-11, Vol. 6 And yet you cannot believe that it is a mere fantasy land of the poet's own imaginings, a country without latitude or longitude as one of his German reviewers has remarked. Quite the contrary, even to one who has never been in Greece he seems to speak with the exact and convincing tones of a man who has observed keenly and put down only what he saw and felt, and it is worth while to notice just what that was. Flowers are for him the one never-failing charm of every landscape. Why, cries he at Corfu, will people persist in ascribing to ¿owers animal or even human qualities, and not rather make gods of them P He calls them these little divine beings, whose rare love-charm ever draws from us new cries of ecstasy (p. And again Paradise will be a land full of strange rare ¿owers. The noble anemones of Corfu help one to foretastes of another world. You almost feel as though you were on a strange planet (p. But it is not only ¿owers, the grasses appeal also (pp. 34, 44, etc.) and trees, especially the gnarled oaks of Elis (pp. 68 f.) Mountains dominate all his landscapes, and with the Shepherd mountain folk he feels the deepest sympathy. On the other hand the sea, which most travelers dwell upon, falls entirely into the background. Haupt mann is not at home there, and from his bizarre fantasies about sea-sickness at the beginning of the book, anyone can see he is not a good sailor. It is rather a landsman that has visited Hellas, and the earth, its life and odors are what he is best prepared to understand and value. The most perfect picture of this almost passionate absorption in the life of nature is that scene where he throws himself on the ground in the woods between Athens and Eleusis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.