Présentation de l'éditeur
Lays of Ancient Rome is something more than a hit of pastime of a famous writer, though it partakes of this character. Macaulay, like other Englishmen of his class and training, was steeped in a knowledge of classic literature and history, which he read with his eye onE nglish history and politics. Scholarship, since his day, has become more specialized, and it is not common to find a man of letters so conversant with Roman life that he would turn easily from his ordinary work of writing modem history, for example, or literary essays, to the half-serious, half-entertaining task of composing imaginary ancient ballads. With Macaulay, Latin literature was a familiar field for recreation, and, his mind having been turned to questions upon the historic basis of early Roman legends, a subject much discussed in his day, he threw off these Lays, and accompanied them with introductory essays intended to establish his position upon grounds of scholarship. The entire body of Lays is, in effect, a long essay with poetic illustrations; but the illustrations appeal so directly to the imagination, and to the love of poetic narrative, that frequently they are printed separately without comment.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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