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Author : Siegfried Lienhard
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : 3447024259
Author : William H. Race
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317620716
First published in 1988, this study explains how certain genres created by Classical poets were adapted and sometimes transformed by the poets of the modern world, beginning with the Tudor poets’ rediscovery of the Classical heritage. Most of the long-lived poetic genres are discussed, from familiar examples like the hymn, elegy and eulogy, to less familiar topics such as the recusatio (refusal to write certain kinds of poems), or formal structures such as priamel. By combining criticism with literary history, the author explores the degree to which certain poets were consciously imitating models, and demonstrates how various generic forms reflect the literary concerns of individual poets as well as the general concerns of their age. The poets discussed range over the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity, and in English from Wyatt to Yeats and Auden. A detailed and fascinating title, this study will appeal to teachers and students of both English and Classical literature.
Author : Sir John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433069263923
Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Walker Illustrated Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : 1406317438
A collection of favorite poems by such writers as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes, with portraits of the poets, brief biographical background, and illustrations.
Author : John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HN21MP
Author : Sir John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433082194147
Author : William Entriken Baily
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019843756
Savor the timeless beauty of classical poetry with this anthology of masterworks from Homer to Milton. Baily introduces each poet and poem with insightful commentary and literary analysis, providing a comprehensive survey of the Western poetic tradition. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015048971140
Author : Stephen Owen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174287
"Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poetry. This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E. First, it examines extant material from this period synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged, with some poems attached to authors and some not. By setting aside putative differences of author and genre, Stephen Owen argues, we can see that this was “one poetry,” created from a shared poetic repertoire and compositional practices. Second, it considers how the scholars of the late fifth and early sixth centuries selected this material and reshaped it to produce the standard account of classical poetry. As Owen shows, early poetry comes to us through reproduction—reproduction by those who knew the poem and transmitted it, by musicians who performed it, and by scribes and anthologists—all of whom changed texts to suit their needs."
Author : Michael Fuller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175833
"This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers—including those with no knowledge of Chinese—as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language. The first two chapters introduce the features of classical Chinese that are important for poetry and then survey the formal and rhetorical conventions of classical poetry. The core chapters present the major poets and poems of the Chinese poetic tradition from earliest times to the lyrics of the Song Dynasty (960–1279).Each chapter begins with an overview of the historical context for the poetry of a particular period and provides a brief biography for each poet. Each of the poems appears in the original Chinese with a word-by-word translation, followed by Michael A. Fuller’s unadorned translation, and a more polished version by modern translators. A question-based study guide highlights the important issues in reading and understanding each particular text.Designed for classroom use and for self-study, the textbook’s goal is to help the reader appreciate both the distinctive voices of the major writers in the Chinese poetic tradition and the grand contours of the development of that tradition."
Author : Gabriel Nocchi Macedo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0472132393
Before the invention of printing, all forms of writing were done by hand. For a literary text to circulate among readers, and to be transmitted from one period in time to another, it had to be copied by scribes. As a result, two copies of an ancient book were different from one another, and each individual book or manuscript has its own history. The oldest of these books, those that are the closest to the time in which the texts were composed, are few, usually damaged, and have been often neglected in the scholarship. Ancient Latin Poetry Books presents a detailed study of the oldest manuscripts still extant that contain texts by Latin poets, such as Virgil, Terence, and Ovid. Analyzing their physical characteristics, their script, and the historical contexts in which they were produced and used, this volume shows how manuscripts can help us gain a better understanding of the history of texts, as well as of reading habits over the centuries. Since the manuscripts originated in various places of the Latin-speaking world, Ancient Latin Poetry Books investigates the readership and reception of Latin poetry in many different contexts, such schools in the Egyptian desert, aristocratic circles in southern Italy, and the Christian élite in late antique Rome. The research also contributes to our knowledge about the use of writing and the importance of the written text in antiquity. This is an innovative approach to the study of ancient literature, one that takes the materiality of texts into consideration.
Author : Dr. Jonathan Williams,Clive Cheesman
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0892367865
This lovely book pairs selections of translated Greek and Roman verse from Homer, Sappho, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, among others, with fine examples of paintings, sculpture, vases, and decorative objects. The excerpts, which cover the period from the eighth century B.C. to the early Middle Ages, were chosen from famous works, such as Homer's Iliad as well as less well-known pieces, such as the writings of the Greek poet Ibycus. This book demonstrates that the human preoccupation with love in all its forms has inspired writers for millennia: from the expression of enduring faithfulness and familial affection in Homer's description of Hector and Andromache to the passionate intensity portrayed by the later Greek lyric poets and the light-hearted depiction of love as a lost little boy by the anonymous authors of the Inacreontea. The book includes a brief introduction to Greek and Roman views on love and marriage, a short biographical note on each of the major poets, and a glossary of mythical and geographical names.
Author : John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858001983448
Author : Hamsa Stainton
Publisher : AAR Religion in Translation
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190889814
"This book investigates the history of a popular genre of Sanskrit devotional poetry in Kashmir: the stotra, or hymn of praise. Focusing on literary hymns from the eighth century to the twentieth, it studies the close link between literary and religious expression in South Asia--the relationship between poetry and prayer"--
Author : Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 041524532X
Facsimile of edition published: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1880.
