Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Chronological Index to Historical Fiction: Including Prose Fiction, Plays and Poems
There are two kinds of truths. There is the truth of fact, which we require in the modern historian. There is the truth of nature and idea, which we demand of the poet and the painter. We may say correctly that the Iliad and the Odyssey are among the truest books that were ever written. We mean no more than that Homer was one of the greatest of artists, and his picture of life in the heroic ages of Greece, the most faithful. The most perfect English History which exists, is to he found, in my opinion, in the historical plays of Shakespeare.
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