Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York : Macmillan Co. · leaf 349
and add new terrorsto the fray. Such devices of the sculptor and such imaginingsof the poet are things of the long ago. Four hundred yearsbefore, Greek art had pronounced them unworthy and limiteditself to soberer, saner means. Why this return? Does thedramatic craving of the time require serpent… … Dispersion and Transfusion 333 spice its confections with the ranker condiments. The tasteis for ginger of the most biting sort, and such a taste is deathto subtler flavors. But why this taste ? Largely because thisis not Greece. It is barbarism under a Greek veneer. EvenGreece is hardly Greek now,…
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