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Echoes from Theocritus with decorations by John Austen and an introduction by John Addington Symonds.
Lefroy’s sonnets originally appeared in four paper-covered pamphlets. The thirty “Echoes from Theocritus” are all penetrated with that purged Hellenic sentiment which was the note of Lefroy’s genius. They are exquisite cameos in miniature carved upon fragments broken from the idylls.
Here we feel that Lefroy had his soul lodged in Hellas. Of how many English poets may not this be said: “Come back, ye wandering Muses, come back home!“? As Landor said, the home of the imagination of the artist is in Greece. Gray, Keats, Shelley, even Byron, Landor, Wordsworth, even Matthew Arnold, all the great and good poets signified this truth in one way or in another.
