He visited Italy in 1857, where he began "The Marble Faun," which is considered his greatest novel.

A little faun, with mischievous look, is binding the faun to the tree with the tiger-skin.

He would have chased the faun into seclusion until he could clothe him in English trousers, and would have rendered the Venus of Milo into bits.

Milton also uses all the symbolism of his predecessors, introducing fauns, satyrs, and sea nymphs; but again the Puritan is not content with heathen symbolism, and so introduces a new symbol of the Christian shepherd responsible for the souls of men, whom he likens to hungry sheep that look up and are not fed.

Soft nymphs on timid step the triumph view, And listening fauns with beating hoofs pursue; With pointed ears the alarmed forest starts, And love and music soften savage hearts.

Upstairs in Sala XVI are many more Greek and Roman bronzes, among which I noticed a faun with two pipes as being especially good; while the little room leading from it has some fine life-size heads, including a noble one of a horse, and the famous Idolino on its elaborate pedestala full-length Greek bronze from the earth of Pesaro, where it was found in 1530.

When I knew him he had published the celebrated "L'Après Midi d'un Faun:" the first poem written in accordance with the theory of symbolism.

Here also are two statues found in Pompeii: the one representing a drunken Faun, the other a sitting Mercury.

That is what we call 'the Oxford voice.'" "How remarkable!" said Henry, his attention called off by a being with a face that half suggested a faun, and half suggested a flower,a small, olive-skinned face crowned with purply black hair, that kept falling in an elflock over his forehead, and violet eyes set slant-wise.