Hunt offers his readers a seasonal gift: essays on Sicily and its pastoral poetry, with translations from Theocritus and Moschus. He wanders from Sicilian myth and history to the bucolic tradition in later literature, including Shakespeare’s Perdita, and closes with overflowings on Sicilian serenades, bandits of 1770, hospitality and a Christmas dinner of English and Sicilian dishes.
A genial, learned miscellany from the Romantic essayist, with illustrations by Richard Doyle. Download the free EPUB.