A Poet's Bazaar: Pictures of Travel in Germany, Italy, Greece, and the Orient (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Poet's Bazaar: Pictures of Travel in Germany, Italy, Greece, and the OrientFrom Thorwaldsen I got the first verbal account Of the Spanish dancers; he was transported and inspired, as I had never before seen him. That is a dance! There are attitudes! There are forms and beauty! Said he, and his eyes glistened while he spoke. See! One is in the South when one sees that dance!One forenoon when I entered his atelier, I saw a bass-relief representing a dancing Bacchus and Bacchante completed in clay. The Spanish dancers have given me the idea, said he 3 they also can dance thus; I' thought of their charming dance when I did this.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.