Английский автор (John Whitehead, A. L. A., This Solemn Mockery, Arlington Books, London) знакомит читателей с наиболее яркими загадками, подделками, розыгрышами в...
Latin poetry begins where almost all poetry begins—in the rude ceremonial of a primitive people placating an unknown and dreaded spiritual world. The earliest fragments are priestly incantations. In one of these fragments the Salii placate...
The Arabs during a thousand years or more produced one of the richest and most extensive literatures of the world, embracing fine poetry (of the fierce desert life equally with the sophistication of royal courts), belles lettres (learned essays,...