The First Poets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Poets write by Michael Schmidt. This book was released on 2010-04-07. The First Poets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life for the general reader the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination. Starting with the legendary and possibly mythical Orpheus and with Homer, Schmidt conjures a host of our literary forebears. From Hipponax, “the dirty old man of poetry,” to Theocritus, the father of pastoral; from Sappho, who threw herself from a cliff for love, to Hesiod, who claimed a visit from the Muses–the stories in The First Poets masterfully merge fact and conjecture into animated and compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture.
The First Poets
The First Poets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Poets write by Michael Schmidt. This book was released on 2016-08-11. The First Poets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination. Starting with the legendary Orpheus and the possibly mythical Homer, Schmidt conjures a host of our literary forebears. From Hipponax, 'the dirty old man of poetry', to Theocritus, the father of pastoral; from Sappho, who threw herself from a cliff for love, to Hesiod, who claimed a visit from the Muses - the stories in The First Poets masterfully merge fact and conjecture into animated and compelling portraits of our cultural ancestors. 'Every poet should buy a copy of this book to keep on their bookshelves. And, when the occasion arises, they should throw it at the cynic who may try to ignore or demean them' Independent.
First Loves
First Loves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Loves write by Carmela Ciuraru. This book was released on 2001. First Loves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in "First Loves". Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others.
Early Greek Poets' Lives
Early Greek Poets' Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Greek Poets' Lives write by Maarit Kivilo. This book was released on 2010. Early Greek Poets' Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets
Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets write by . This book was released on 1988. Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
