Author: Ada Palmer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674725573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance
Author: Ada Palmer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674725573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674725573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.
Of the Nature of Things
Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
De Rerum Natura
Author: William Ellery Leonard
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299003647
Category : Didactic poetry, Latin
Languages : la
Pages : 916
Book Description
Now available in paperback, this annotated scholarly edition of the Latin text of De Rerum Natura has long been hailed as one of the finest editions of this monumental work. It features an introduction to Lucretius's life and work by William Ellery Leonard, an introduction to and commentary on the poem by Stanley Barney Smith, the complete Latin text with detailed annotations, and an index of ancient sources. --University of Wisconsin Press.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299003647
Category : Didactic poetry, Latin
Languages : la
Pages : 916
Book Description
Now available in paperback, this annotated scholarly edition of the Latin text of De Rerum Natura has long been hailed as one of the finest editions of this monumental work. It features an introduction to Lucretius's life and work by William Ellery Leonard, an introduction to and commentary on the poem by Stanley Barney Smith, the complete Latin text with detailed annotations, and an index of ancient sources. --University of Wisconsin Press.
A Few Days in Athens, Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum
Author: Frances Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Philosophy of Epicurus
Author: Epicurus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486833038
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486833038
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Approaches to Lucretius
Author: Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108421962
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108421962
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Takes stock of existing approaches in the interpretation of Lucretius, innovates within these, and advances in new directions.
Three Philosophical Poets
Author: George Santayana
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Lucretius De Rerum Natura IV
Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0856683094
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : la
Pages : 183
Book Description
Book IV of Lucretius' great philosophical poem deals mainly with the psychology of sensation and thought. The heart of this book is a new text, incorporating the latest scholarship on the text of Lucretius, with a clear prose facing translation. The commentary concentrates on the thought of the text (relating it to other philosophers beside Epicurus) and the poetry of the Latin, placing the text in relation to Roman literature in general, and attempting to demonstrate the poetic genius of Lucretius. The introduction deals with the didactic tradition in ancient literature and Lucretius' place in it, the structure of De Rerum Natura, the salient features of the philosophy of Epicurus and the transmission of the text.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0856683094
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : la
Pages : 183
Book Description
Book IV of Lucretius' great philosophical poem deals mainly with the psychology of sensation and thought. The heart of this book is a new text, incorporating the latest scholarship on the text of Lucretius, with a clear prose facing translation. The commentary concentrates on the thought of the text (relating it to other philosophers beside Epicurus) and the poetry of the Latin, placing the text in relation to Roman literature in general, and attempting to demonstrate the poetic genius of Lucretius. The introduction deals with the didactic tradition in ancient literature and Lucretius' place in it, the structure of De Rerum Natura, the salient features of the philosophy of Epicurus and the transmission of the text.
American Fried
Author: Calvin Trillin
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394741727
Category : Dinners and dining
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
TRAVEL-DOMESTIC
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394741727
Category : Dinners and dining
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
TRAVEL-DOMESTIC
3 Summers
Author: Lisa Robertson
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1770564802
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Recite your poem to your aunt. I threw myself to the ground. Where were you in the night? In a school among the pines. What was the meaning of the dream? Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns with form and literary precedent, and turns toward the timeliness of embodiment. What is form's time? Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body's mortality, its thickness, its play. The 10 poem-sequences in 3 Summers inflect a history of textual voices — Lucretius, Marx, Aby Warburg, Deleuze, the Sogdian Sutras — in a lyricism that insists on analysis and revolt, as well as the pleasures of description. The poet explores the mysterious oddness of the body, its languor and persistence, to test how it shapes the materiality of thinking, which includes rivers and forests. But in these poems' landscapes, the time of nature is inherently political. Now only time is wild, and only time — embodied here in Lisa Robertson’s forceful cadences — can tell. "Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy. . . . Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt. . . . She wields language expertly, even beautifully."—The New York Times "Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture."— The Village Voice Lisa Robertson's books include Cinema of the Present, Debbie: An Epic, The Men, The Weather, R's Boat and Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip was named one of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books. She lives in France.
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1770564802
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Recite your poem to your aunt. I threw myself to the ground. Where were you in the night? In a school among the pines. What was the meaning of the dream? Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns with form and literary precedent, and turns toward the timeliness of embodiment. What is form's time? Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body's mortality, its thickness, its play. The 10 poem-sequences in 3 Summers inflect a history of textual voices — Lucretius, Marx, Aby Warburg, Deleuze, the Sogdian Sutras — in a lyricism that insists on analysis and revolt, as well as the pleasures of description. The poet explores the mysterious oddness of the body, its languor and persistence, to test how it shapes the materiality of thinking, which includes rivers and forests. But in these poems' landscapes, the time of nature is inherently political. Now only time is wild, and only time — embodied here in Lisa Robertson’s forceful cadences — can tell. "Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy. . . . Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt. . . . She wields language expertly, even beautifully."—The New York Times "Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture."— The Village Voice Lisa Robertson's books include Cinema of the Present, Debbie: An Epic, The Men, The Weather, R's Boat and Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip was named one of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books. She lives in France.