Book Description

Excerpt from Poetry of Modern Greece: Specimens and Extracts The modern literature of Greece has as yet attracted little notice in England, though in France and Germany it meets with more atten tion. The merits of Greek popular ballads have indeed been made known here as well as elsewhere, and many of them have been from time to time translated, but very few English versions have appeared from the works of the poetical writers who have arisen in Greece since she regained her freedom. To introduce a few of these to English readers is the object of this book. As, however, no work dealing with modern Greek poetry can leave the popular ballads unnoticed, the first part contains translations of some of them. 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.