C. M. Bowra

INTRODUCTION Apart from its other claims to fame, the importance assigned by Classical Greece to individual achievement assures it a place among the great ages of man. There were earlier great ages, but those periods were dominated for the most part by absolute rulers of monolithic states; the...

PREFACE This book contains the lectures which I gave at Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the happy months of 1948-1949, when I was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. I have thought it right to publish them as they were delivered and not to transform them. The book...