Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Publisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Reed of Pan
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Publisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Greek Epigram in Reception
Author: Gideon Nisbet
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019163946X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Greek Epigram in Reception is a chronological survey of the reception history of the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange evolution of the Greek Anthology from the early nineteenth century to the years after the first World War, the volume analyses the complex webs of rhetoric that are spun as writers and translators bring their different agendas to bear on the Anthology's text, pruning it to meet their needs. As so little was known about its poets, and because it stood for the 'Anthology' of the Greeks and their culture, the text became the battleground during the 1870s-90s on which normative and dissident interpretations of Ancient Greece were fought out. An emergent mass readership became caught between opposing and rhetorically loaded accounts, casting the Anthology and thus the ancient race on whom the British were supposed to be modelling themselves as patriots and doting spouses or lovers of male Beauty, like the Decadent sensation Oscar Wilde. The after-effects of this cultural war were to stretch into the 1920s, and still echo today.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019163946X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Greek Epigram in Reception is a chronological survey of the reception history of the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange evolution of the Greek Anthology from the early nineteenth century to the years after the first World War, the volume analyses the complex webs of rhetoric that are spun as writers and translators bring their different agendas to bear on the Anthology's text, pruning it to meet their needs. As so little was known about its poets, and because it stood for the 'Anthology' of the Greeks and their culture, the text became the battleground during the 1870s-90s on which normative and dissident interpretations of Ancient Greece were fought out. An emergent mass readership became caught between opposing and rhetorically loaded accounts, casting the Anthology and thus the ancient race on whom the British were supposed to be modelling themselves as patriots and doting spouses or lovers of male Beauty, like the Decadent sensation Oscar Wilde. The after-effects of this cultural war were to stretch into the 1920s, and still echo today.
Poems from Greek Antiquity
Author: Paul Quarrie
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1101908211
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A beautiful Pocket Poet selection of short poems, odes, and epigrams from ancient Greece, translated into English by a wide array of distinguished translators and poets Poems from Greek Antiquity presents a gloriously compact treasury of the enduring and influential poems of the ancient Greeks. Greek literature abounds in masterpieces, the most famous of which are lengthy epics, but it is also rich in poems of much smaller compass than The Iliad or The Odyssey. The short poems, odes, and epigrams included in this volume span a vast period of more than a thousand years. Included here are selections from the early lyric and elegiac poets, the Alexandrian poets, Alcaeus, Sappho, Pindar, and many more. Here, too, are poems drawn from the celebrated Greek Anthology, and from the Anacreontea, the collection of odes on the pleasures of drink, love, and beauty that have been popular for centuries both in the original Greek and in English. Excerpts from somewhat longer poems include Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Homeric Hymn to Mercury” and the hugely entertaining Homeric pastiche “The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.” The English translations in this volume are works of art in their own right and come from a wide range of remarkable poets and translators, ranging from George Chapman in the seventeenth century to Robert Fagles in the twentieth.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1101908211
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A beautiful Pocket Poet selection of short poems, odes, and epigrams from ancient Greece, translated into English by a wide array of distinguished translators and poets Poems from Greek Antiquity presents a gloriously compact treasury of the enduring and influential poems of the ancient Greeks. Greek literature abounds in masterpieces, the most famous of which are lengthy epics, but it is also rich in poems of much smaller compass than The Iliad or The Odyssey. The short poems, odes, and epigrams included in this volume span a vast period of more than a thousand years. Included here are selections from the early lyric and elegiac poets, the Alexandrian poets, Alcaeus, Sappho, Pindar, and many more. Here, too, are poems drawn from the celebrated Greek Anthology, and from the Anacreontea, the collection of odes on the pleasures of drink, love, and beauty that have been popular for centuries both in the original Greek and in English. Excerpts from somewhat longer poems include Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Homeric Hymn to Mercury” and the hugely entertaining Homeric pastiche “The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.” The English translations in this volume are works of art in their own right and come from a wide range of remarkable poets and translators, ranging from George Chapman in the seventeenth century to Robert Fagles in the twentieth.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Bulletin [1908-23]
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Reader's Index and Guide
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Collected Papers
Author: Harry Bischoff Weiss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Rambles and Reflections
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Trefoil
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincoln (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A biography of the author's father, Edward White Benson.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincoln (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A biography of the author's father, Edward White Benson.
The Bookman's Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description