| Notes: | "This poem 'Isles of Greece' which incorporates 'Lesbos,' 'Andros,' 'Leucadia,' and 'Chios,' requires some explanation to make it intelligible. It is not so much one poem as a collection ... mostly founded on the solitary fragments to be seen in a weird little volume, which came into my posession ... bearing the title of 'Lyrici graeci' ... published in Paris in 1825 ... The headings of some of the sections are free translations of the fragmentary remains of the lyrics of Sappho and Alcaeus, and have contributed more or less to the structure of a story, such as it is, and the unification of the series as an epical whole."--Introduction, pages v and xiv.
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Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century Poetry, entry 626
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