A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, by Leigh Hunt : (full image Illustrated)
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.
CHRISTMAS AND ITALY: or, A Prefatory Essay, showing the Extreme Fitness of this Book for the Season
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
A BLUE JAR FROM SICILY, AND A BRASS JAR FROM THE "ARABIAN NIGHTS;" AND WHAT CAME OUT OF EACH
CHAPTER II. SICILY, AND ITS MYTHOLOGY.
ISLAND OF SICILY, AND MOUNT ÆTNA. -- STORIES OF TYPH?US, POLYPHEMUS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, GLAUCUS AND SCYLLA, ALPHEUS AND ARETHUSA, THE SIRENS, AND THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE
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
CHAPTER IV. THEOCRITUS.
PASTORAL POETRY. -- SPECIMENS OF THE STRENGTH AND COMIC HUMOUR OF THEOCRITUS. -- THE PRIZE-FIGHT BETWEEN POLLUX AND AMYCUS. -- THE SYRACUSAN GOSSIPS
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
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
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
CHAPTER IX. ENGLISH PASTORAL. -- (Concluded.)
PASTORALS OF WILLIAM BROWNE. -- PASTORAL MEN: CERVANTES, BOCCACCIO, CHAUCER, COWLEY, THOMSON, SHENSTONE, ETC.
CHAPTER X. RETURN TO SICILY AND MOUNT ÆTNA.
SUBJECT OF MOUNT ÆTNA RESUMED: -- ITS BEAUTIES -- ITS HORRORS -- REASON WHY PEOPLE ENDURE THEM. -- LOVE-STORY OF AN EARTHQUAKE
CHAPTER XI. BEES.
THE BEAUTIFUL NEVER TO BE THANKED TOO MUCH, OR TO BE SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSED. -- BEES AND THEIR ELEGANCE. -- THEIR ADVICE TO AN ITALIAN POET. -- WAXEN TAPERS. -- A BEE DRAMA. -- MASSACRES OF DRONES. -- HUMAN PROGRESSION
CHAPTER XII. MISCELLANEOUS FEELINGS RESPECTING SICILY, ITS MUSIC, ITS RELIGION, AND ITS MODERN POETRY.
DANTE'S EVENING. -- AVE MARIA OF BYRON. -- THE SICILIAN VESPERS. -- NOTHING "INFERNAL" IN NATURE. -- SICILIAN MARINER'S HYMN. -- INVOCATION FROM COLERIDGE. -- PAGAN AND ROMAN CATHOLIC WORSHIP. -- LATIN AND ITALIAN COUPLET. -- WINTER'S "RATTO DI PROSERPINA." -- A HINT ON ITALIAN AIRS. -- BELLINI, MELI, THE MODERN THEOCRITUS
OVERFLOWINGS OF THE JAR.
THE JOURNEY TO THE FEAST (FROM THEOCRITUS)
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION (FROM MOSCHUS)
THE SHIP OF HIERO
SERENADES IN SICILY AND NAPLES
SICILIAN BANDITTI IN THE YEAR 1770
GOOD-NATURED HOSPITALITY, AND FACETIOUS IGNORANT OLD GENTLEMAN
OF HIGHER SOCIETY
POETICAL TURN OF THE SICILIANS
A MEETING OF ENGLISH AND SICILIAN DISHES ON CHRISTMAS-DAY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
DESIGNED AND DRAWN ON WOOD BY RICHARD DOYLE
A JAR OF HONEY FROM MOUNT HYBLA
THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE
SICULO-SARACENIC JAR
THE SIRENS AND ULYSSES
THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE
PRESIDING DEITY OF HYBLA, FROM A SICILIAN COIN
INFANT PLATO AND THE BEES
FAIRY AND BEE
SHEPHERDESS AND FLOCK
THEOCRITUS, FROM THE RECEIVED PORTR

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