Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sophocles, the Plays and Fragments, Vol. 3: With Critical Notes, Commentary, and Translation in English Prose; The Antigone
Such a study of the play, as a work of art, stands here in a more than usually intimate relation with that study of language and of detail which it is the secondary office of an interpreter to assist. The poetical texture of the work is, even for Sophocles, remarkably close and fine; it is singularly rich in delicate traits which might easily escape our observation, but which are nevertheless of vital consequence to a just apprecia tion of the drama in larger aspects. The A anyone is thus a peculiarly exacting subject for a commentator. In estimating the shortcomings of an attempt to illustrate it, it may at least be hoped that the critic will not altogether forget the difficulties of the task.
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