![]() Faced with this problem, I determined at the outset to dismiss any idea of unifying the tales. In point of fact, Chaucer is more like Galsworthy and the ballads like Kipling than Homer is like Lucian or Aeschylus like Ovid. The English collection would be bigger, but it would not contain more dissimilar material. Twelve hundred years separate the first writers through whom the myths have come down to us from the last, and there are stories as unlike each other as "Cinderella" and "King Lear." To bring them all together in one volume is really somewhat comparable to doing the same for the stories of English literature from Chaucer to the ballads, through Shakespeare and Marlowe and Swift and Defoe and Dryden and Pope and so on, ending with, say, Tennyson and Browning, or even, to make the comparison truer, Kipling and Galsworthy. ![]() BACK SAY BOOKS / LI TTLE, BROWN AND COMPAN Y HACHETTE BOO K GROUP USA 237 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 100'7 VISIT OUR WE B SITE AT ORIGI NALLY PUBLISH ED IN HARDCOVER BY LITTLE, BROWN AND CO MPA NY, 1942 FI RST BACK BAY PAPERBACK EDITION, 1998 ISBN 978-0-3 16-34 114- 1 (HC) ISBN 978-0-3 16-34151 -6 (PB) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CA RD NUMBER 98-67177 20 19 60 59 58 ( h e) 18 17 16 15 14 ( pb) Q- FF PRINTED IN T HE UN ITED STATES OF AMER ICA Foreword A BOOK on Mythology must draw from widely different sources. ![]() CO PYRIGHT ACT OF 1976, NO PART OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE REPRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED, OR TRANSM ITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, OR STO RED IN A DATA BASE OR RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, WITHO UT THE PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISS ION OF T HE PUBLISH ER. ![]()
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