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Excerpt from The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy
I believe that few of the discussions of the dream, generally accessible, have escaped my examination. Furthermore, I have made a collection of the passages in Greek and Latin literature in which dreams are related in full or in which reference is made to dreams, scarcely short of entire completeness, down through the first quarter Of the second century, so that on any point the guiding principle of a knowledge of how the dream has been treated elsewhere has always been available. On the basis of this reading I have, in the footnotes, defended positions taken in the text and discussed allied aspects of the dream, contenting myself, however, with the citation of authorities and parallel passages which may be looked upon as illustrative rather than as exhaustive.
The study Of the art and the structure Of poetry concerns itself with a great number Of smaller problems of technique, of which that involved in the use of the dream is one. The solu tion of the problems Of the technique of the dream, then, will to some extent throw light upon that larger field.
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