قراءة كتاب A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla
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A JAR OF HONEY
FROM MOUNT HYBLA
A JAR OF HONEY
FROM
MOUNT HYBLA
BY LEIGH HUNT
ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD DOYLE
A NEW EDITION
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1883
TO
HORACE SMITH,
WHO, THOUGH HE SUPPRESSES THE PASTORALS WHICH HE WROTE
IN HIS YOUTH,
WILL RETAIN AS LONG AS HE LIVES,
A HEART OPEN TO EVERY NATURAL AND NOBLE IMPRESSION,
THESE PAGES,
WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE, BUT CONFIDING IN HIS INDULGENCE,
ARE INSCRIBED,
BY HIS EVER GRATEFUL AND AFFECTIONATE FRIEND,
LEIGH HUNT.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| CHRISTMAS AND ITALY: or, A Prefatory Essay, showing the Extreme Fitness of this Book for the Season | 1 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| INTRODUCTORY. | |
| A BLUE JAR FROM SICILY, AND A BRASS JAR FROM THE “ARABIAN NIGHTS;” AND WHAT CAME OUT OF EACH | 25 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| SICILY, AND ITS MYTHOLOGY. | |
| ISLAND OF SICILY, AND MOUNT ÆTNA.—STORIES OF TYPHŒUS, POLYPHEMUS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, GLAUCUS AND SCYLLA, ALPHEUS AND ARETHUSA, THE SIRENS, AND THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE | 34 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| GLANCES AT ANCIENT SICILIAN HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. | |
| 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 PARTICULARS RELATING TO GELLIAS | 58 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| THEOCRITUS. | |
| PASTORAL POETRY.—SPECIMENS OF THE STRENGTH AND COMIC HUMOUR OF THEOCRITUS.—THE PRIZE-FIGHT BETWEEN POLLUX AND AMYCUS.—THE SYRACUSAN GOSSIPS | 71 |
| 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 VERSIFICATION AND MUSIC.—PASTORAL OF BION AND MOSCHUS | 88 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| NORMAN TIMES—LEGEND OF KING ROBERT. | |
| HOW KING ROBERT OF SICILY WAS DISPOSSESSED OF HIS THRONE; AND WHO SAT UPON IT.—HIS WRATH, SUFFERINGS, AND REPENTANCE | 107 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| ITALIAN AND ENGLISH PASTORAL. | |
| TASSO’S ERMINIA AMONG THE SHEPHERDS, AND ODE ON THE GOLDEN AGE.—GUARINI’S RETURN OF SPRING.—SHEPHERD’S VISION OF THE HUNDRED MAIDENS IN SPENSER.—“SAD SHEPHERD” OF BEN JONSON | 123 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| ENGLISH PASTORAL—(Continued); AND SCOTCH PASTORAL. | |
| FLETCHER’S “FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.”—PROBABLE REASON OF ITS NON-SUCCESS.—“COMUS” AND “LYCIDAS.”—DR. JOHNSON’S “WORLD.”—BURNS AND ALLAN RAMSAY | 147 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| ENGLISH PASTORAL.—(Concluded.) | |
| PASTORALS OF WILLIAM BROWNE.—PASTORAL MEN: CERVANTES, BOCCACCIO, CHAUCER, COWLEY, THOMSON, SHENSTONE, ETC. | 162 |