pt. 1, The epic and lyric poets

pt. 1, The epic and lyric poets
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Total Pages : 300
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Synopsis pt. 1, The epic and lyric poets by : John Pentlans Mahaffy

Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets

Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets
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Publisher : Pantheon
Total Pages : 372
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Willis Barnstone has augmented his widely used anthology of the Greek lyric poets with eleven newly attributed Sappho poems, making this the most complete offering of Sappho in English. Two new sections -- "Sources and Notes" and "Sappho: Her Life and Poems" -- provide the student with the classical sources and an appraisal of this greatest of Western women poets. Barnstone's lucid, elegant translations include a representative sampling of all the significant Greek lyric poets, from Archilochus, in the seventh century B.C., through Pindar ("prince of choral poets") and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. William McCulloh's introduction illuminates the forms and development of the Greek lyric. Barnstone introduces each poet with a brief biographical and literary sketch. The critical apparatus includes a glossary, index, bibliography, and concordance. Willis Barnstone is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Indiana University. He is co-editor of A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, and has translated poetry of Mao Zedong, Antonio Machado, and St. John of the Cross.

Lyric Poetry

Lyric Poetry
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9781400827411
ISBN-13 : 1400827418
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Synopsis Lyric Poetry by : Mutlu Blasing

Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic, linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional histories in language. Focusing on the work of such diverse twentieth-century American poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Sexton, Blasing demonstrates the ways that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of poetic language.

A History of Classical Greek Literature: pt. 1. The poets [epic and lyric] with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce-V. I, pt, II. The dramatic poets-V. 2, pt. 1. The prose writers, from Herodotus to Plato.-V. 2, pt. II. The prose writers, from Isocrates to Aristotle

A History of Classical Greek Literature: pt. 1. The poets [epic and lyric] with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce-V. I, pt, II. The dramatic poets-V. 2, pt. 1. The prose writers, from Herodotus to Plato.-V. 2, pt. II. The prose writers, from Isocrates to Aristotle
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Total Pages : 316
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Synopsis A History of Classical Greek Literature: pt. 1. The poets [epic and lyric] with an appendix on Homer by Prof. Sayce-V. I, pt, II. The dramatic poets-V. 2, pt. 1. The prose writers, from Herodotus to Plato.-V. 2, pt. II. The prose writers, from Isocrates to Aristotle by : John Pentland Mahaffy

Lyric Poetry

Lyric Poetry
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 0674017129
ISBN-13 : 9780674017122
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Synopsis Lyric Poetry by : Pietro Bembo

Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), scholar and critic, was one of the most admired Latinists of his day. The poems in this volume come from all periods of his life and reflect both his erudition and his wide-ranging friendships. This volume also includes the prose dialogue Etna, an account of Bembo's ascent of Mt. Etna in Sicily during his student days.

The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs

The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 509
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ISBN-10 : 9781527523791
ISBN-13 : 1527523799
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Synopsis The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs by : Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Though the contributors rank among the leading experts in their fields, the essays here are accessible not only to their peers, but also to the interested ‘general reader’, and so to all those who seek a deeper understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations, their common human basis and their characteristic differences.