By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern ItalySignal Books, 2004 - Broj stranica: 159 In 1897 the Victorian novelist George Gissing undertook a brief but eventful journey in southern Italy. His itinerary took him from Naples to Reggio di Calabria, via Paola, Cosenza, Crotone and Squillace, through the area once known as Magna Graecia. Meditating on the vestiges of Greco-Roman civilization, Gissing visited tombs and temples, museums and cathedrals, in search of the imprint of antiquity and that old world which was the imaginative delight of my boyhood. The result was By the Ionian Sea, first published in 1901. Gissing's journey by boat, train, and carriage revealed not just the ruined glories of a classical past, but also the hardships of rural life in turn-of-the-century rural Italy. Meeting poverty-stricken peasants and corrupt local officials, he endured discomfort, danger and illness in a remote and little visited corner of Europe. Yet throughout he appreciated the warmth and generosity shown to him by local people, curious about this solitary stranger. By turns lyrical and melancholic, Gissing's masterpiece of travel writing alternates between light and dark, life and death, Paganism and Christianity. Looking at Italy in both its classical and contemporary dim |
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From Naples | 1 |
Paola | 7 |
The Grave of Alaric | 14 |
Toronto | 22 |
Dulce Galæsi Flumen | 29 |
The Table of the Paladins | 36 |
Cotrone | 44 |
Faces By the Way | 52 |
Catanzaro | 82 |
The Breezy Height | 93 |
Squillace | 100 |
Miseria | 107 |
Cassiodorw | 112 |
The Grotta | 119 |
Reggio | 124 |
NOTES | 133 |
My Friend the Doctor | 60 |
Children of the Soil | 68 |
The Mount of Refuge | 75 |
FURTHER READING | 152 |
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The Realms of Verse 1830-1870: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building Matthew Reynolds Ograničeni pregled - 2005 |