Author:
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571317287
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Get Book Here
Book Description
Anthology. The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet, a garland; “a flower-logic, a petal-theory, a blossom-word.” In Stone-Garland, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks. Simonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages, sometimes in fragments, sometimes in sustained glimpses. Drawing inspiration from the Greek Anthology, first drafted in the first century BC, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children, gods and insects, earth and water, ideas and ideals. Throughout, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs, and “the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is.” Spare, earthy, lovely, Stone-Garland offers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden.
Author: Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 805
Get Book Here
Book Description
Epigrams, the briefest of Greek poetic forms, had a strong appeal for readers of the Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C.). One of the most characteristic literary forms of the era, the epigram, unlike any other ancient or classical form of poetry, was not only composed for public recitation but was also collected in books intended for private reading. Brief and concise, concerned with the personal and the particular, the epigram emerged in the Hellenistic period as a sophisticated literary form that evinces the period's aesthetic preference for the miniature, the intricate, and the fragmented. Kathryn Gutzwiller offers the first full-length literary study of these important poems by studying the epigrams within the context of the poetry books in which they were originally collected. Drawing upon ancient sources as well as recent papyrological discoveries, Gutzwiller reconstructs the nature of Hellenistic epigram books and interprets individual poems as if they remained part of their original collections. This approach results in illuminating and original readings of many major poets, and demonstrates that individual epigrammatists were differentiated by gender, ethnicity, class status, and philosophical views. In an important final chapter, Gutzwiller reconstructs much of the poetic structure of Meleager's Garland, an ancient anthology of Hellenistic epigrams.
Author: Abraham Holroyd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Coventry Patmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Caroline Matilda Kirkland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Rochelle Potkar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912111664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Get Book Here
Book Description
A stunning and timely anthology of the best of Goan poetry in English and Irish translation, including both favourite and almost-forgotten poems from the past and present. Rochelle Potkar has established a new Goan canon for the 21st century.
Author: Abraham Holroyd
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259234838
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Get Book Here
Book Description
Excerpt from A Garland of Poetry: By Yorkshire Authors, or Relating to Yorkshire Sipping nectar from each, so have I wandered amongst our York shire Bards, gathering from each their most precious poems, songs and sonnets; and I have thereof, 0 gentle reader, made a garland of sweetest poesy for thy delectation. Fear not, for thou wilt find nothing to hurt thee: there is nothing that will sting thee or leave thee the worse when thou layest down my little book. But thou wilt find herein something to delight thy fancy if thou hast imagination; to please thy humour if thou desirest to be merry; or, if thou art sad, something which will chime in with thy dejected condition. Poets are but men and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Diane J. Rayor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136774696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Get Book Here
Book Description
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Abraham Holroyd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Get Book Here
Book Description
