Some Greek Poems of Love and Wine
Title | Some Greek Poems of Love and Wine PDF eBook |
Author | J. M. Edmonds |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 2015-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107554314 |
Originally published in 1939, this book presents some of the most captivating Greek poetry from antiquity on the subjects of love and wine.
Some Greek Poems of Love and Beauty
Title | Some Greek Poems of Love and Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | J. M. Edmonds |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 79 |
Release | 2015-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107554292 |
Originally published in 1937, this book presents some of the most captivating Greek poetry from antiquity on the subjects of love and beauty.
On Poetry
Title | On Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Glyn Maxwell |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2016-11-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0674265874 |
“This is a book for anyone,” Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to understand why and how poetic technique matters. When Maxwell states, “With rhyme what matters is the distance between rhymes” or “the line-break is punctuation,” he compresses into simple, memorable phrases a great deal of practical wisdom. In seven chapters whose weird, gnomic titles announce the singularity of the book—“White,” “Black,” “Form,” “Pulse,” “Chime,” “Space,” and “Time”—the poet explores his belief that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities: breath, heartbeat, footstep, posture. “The sound of form in poetry descended from song, molded by breath, is the sound of that creature yearning to leave a mark. The meter says tick-tock. The rhyme says remember. The whiteness says alone,” Maxwell writes. To illustrate his argument, he draws upon personal touchstones such as Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. An experienced teacher, Maxwell also takes us inside the world of the creative writing class, where we learn from the experiences of four aspiring poets. “You master form you master time,” Maxwell says. In this guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature, Maxwell shares his mastery with us.
Some Greek Poems of Love and Wine Being a Further Selection from the Little Things of Greek Poetry
Title | Some Greek Poems of Love and Wine Being a Further Selection from the Little Things of Greek Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence
Title | Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Alejandro Cantarero de Salazar |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527560465 |
This book deals with Greek lyric composed more than twenty-five centuries ago. These poems sing of everyday events and emotions in human life, from the most festive to the most serious, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume begins with a panorama of Greek lyric poetic genres, their main authors and their representative topics. The first part contains philological studies and literary analyses, first of some Greek poets—Anacreon, Sappho and Lycophron, among others—then of their influence on Horace’s Latin poetry, and on contemporary poetry. The second part, illustrated with colour images, studies Greek lyric from socio-political and iconographic perspectives, analysing its coincidences and reflections in images from Greek pottery, sculptures and reliefs. In addition, this section includes two works on musical theory and composition related to ancient Greek lyric. The volume closes with two studies of the image of Sappho in cinema.
The Poems of Sappho
Title | The Poems of Sappho PDF eBook |
Author | Sappho |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Greek poetry |
ISBN |
The Wine-dark Sea
Title | The Wine-dark Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393035582 |
At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize through the stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.