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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...Watts. The following sentences occur in the article: "But the Greek drama was, as Mr. Arnold recognizes in his admirable preface to "Merope," the child of peculiar social and theatrical conditions. We cannot, even at Harvard or Balliol, hope to bring back those conditions. . . . The preface contains, perhaps, the briefest and most lucid account ever yet given of the nature and aims of the Greek drama, and of the functions of the chorus." Mr. Lang, himself a graduate of Oxford, gives us a glimpse into the results of the system of compulsory studies there, at the time when Matthew Arnold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURRENT LITERATURE. | 3/27/1882 | See Source »

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