The Universal Anthology
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ISBN13: 9780217400657
Paperback|9780217400657
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SAPPHO. By FRANZ GRILLEARZER. franz Grillparzer, the chief of Austrian dramatists, was the child of a union which has produced hosts of eminent men, and by rights ought always to produce them, ? a stern and high-principled father with a sensitive and beauty- loving mother, giving power and continuity to sensibility and artistic feeling. Macaulay, Victor Hugo, and Henry Ward Beecher will be readily recalled. Grillparzer's father was a lawyer in Vienna, where the boy was born January 15,1791; his mother was a musical devotee who finally took her own life. A tutor for two years, from 1813 to 1856, he was in the public service, becoming director of the archives, and retiring on a pension in 1856. But his real life was in his writings. He was born for literature, was drawn to the drama by nature and the great popularity of the fate tragedies of the time, and was especially enamored of Calderon, whose influence is plain in his work, one of his pieces being imitated even to the title from Life is a Dream. He wrote tragedies when a mere boy: but the first of any moment, The Ancestress, was published in 1816; its theme is a family curse as in the Greek tragedies. It was very popular, and in 1819 he published Sappho, still ranked as his masterpiece; it was an attempt to charge ancient classic form with modern romantic feeling and richness of detail. It raised him at once to the front rank of European poets, Byron predicting immortality for it from reading an Italian translation of it. Another classical work, the trilogy The Golden Fleece, came out in 1822. He next turned to national history, and in 1825 published King Ottocar's Fortune and End, of the times of Rudolf I., the founder of the House of Hapsburg; and in 1830 A Faithful Servant of His Lord, which had...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217400657 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217400655 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $21.79 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 274 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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