The Lives of the Greek 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 Lives of the Greek Poets write by Mary R. Lefkowitz. This book was released on 2013-03-14. The Lives of the Greek Poets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her classic study to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets. With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the poets' own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes how biographical mythology was created and offers a sympathetic account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets' lives. She argues that the life stories of Greek poets, even though primarily fictional, still merit close consideration, as they provide modern readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process and the purpose of poetic composition.
Greek Lyric Poetry
Greek Lyric Poetry - 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 Greek Lyric Poetry write by M. L. West. This book was released on 2008-09-11. Greek Lyric Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry.
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.
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.
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 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.
