The Choice of Books

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The Choice of Books
Harrison, Frederic, 1831-1923
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53 If the seyen sorviying dramas of jfischylus had followed into black night the other sixty-three, which we have lost, we should probably regard (Edipns the King of Sophocles as the type of the pnre drama. And, in the exquisite ten- derness and nobility of soul of the Anti- gone and the (Edipus at Colonus, Sopho- cles reaches a note of pathos, wherein .^chylus himself had inferior, and Shakespeare alone an equal mastery.' So, too, in comedy, Aristophanes is the man's genius is not so much in h...armony with iBschylos as with Homer, he is quite at his beet in the Agamemnon.
^ Mr. £. D. A. Morshead has been as suc- cessful with the (Edipus King of Sopho- cles as with the Trilogy of ^schylus. Pro- fessor Lewis CampbelVs translation of Ebphocles is most elegant and, with the accuracy of a scholar, gives us scxnething of the grace and lyric charm of Sophocles.
54 THB CHOICE OF BOOKS.
eternal type. Inexhaustible fancy, the wildest humour, the keenest wit, the subtlest eye for character, combine in him with perennial inventiveness and exquisite melody.


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