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Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Note 15 — FRAGMENT OF AN "ANTIGONE"

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NOTE 15, PAGE 214.

O'er the sun-redden'd western straits.

Erytheia, the legendary region around the Pillars of Hercules, probably took its name from the redness of the West under which the Greeks saw it.

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