Mary Shelley, Review of La Guzla

Mary Shelley compares eastern European recitation to music in La Guzla to the practices of Italian improvisatori.

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Author:
Shelley, Mary
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Language:
English
Publication Title:
The Westminster Review
Article Title:
Review of La Guzla, ou Choix de Poesies Illyriques recueillies dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, la Croatie et l’ Herzegowine (Paris 1827)
Page Numbers:
10:72
Additional Info:
January 1829 issue
Publisher:
J. C. Stephens
Place of Publication:
London
Date Published:
1829

Text:

The author's next work was in a very different style, resembling the first in one particular only, that it is an imitation. It is entitled the "Guzla," and imports to be a translation of a collection of Illyrian national poems. We have in the preface some account of the players on the Guzla (a single-stringed guitar) and their mode of reciting to music, much in the manner of the Italian improvisatori.

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