The Penguin Book Of Greek Verse

Author : Constantine Athanasius Trypanis
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Verse written by Constantine Athanasius Trypanis and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1971 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covers approximately three thousand years - from Homer to the twentieth century."--Back cover.

Author : Constantine Athanasius Trypanēs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Author : George Steiner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation written by George Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind. It contains some two hundred and fifty poems by the major English and American poets from Swinburne and Hopkins to Robert Lowell; each poem is a translation of imitation of a work in a foreign tongue. Twenty-two languages are represented in this glittering collection. They range from Hebrew and classical Greek to modern Chinese, from Polish to Korean. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald are included--each a master in his own right, but seen here as the re-creator of another poet's voice. George Steiner believes that ours is the most beautiful period of poetic translation since the Elizabethans. Here is his evidence.--Cover

Author : Christopher Childers
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392142
Total Pages : 1006 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse written by Christopher Childers and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Inspired and enlightening ... here is a work of staggering ambition, exceptional accomplishment, and surprisingly pleasant reading ... an excellent gift for anyone interested in classical literature' A. E. Stallings, Telegraph 'An extraordinary feat ... Over and over, I was impressed both by Childers's technical abilities and his vivid way of evoking the multiple voices in this rich tradition' Emily Wilson, translator of the Odyssey and the Iliad 'Where does the lyric begin? One answer – a capacious and generous one – is given by Christopher Childers's anthology, in which translations of both Greek and Latin lyric poetry are offered in large servings, with extensive and ambitious commentary ... bold and worthwhile ... readable and learned' Peter McDonald, TLS 'An extraordinary achievement, in scope, scale and skill' Richard Jenkyns, author of Classical Literature The poems in this lively, wide-ranging and richly enjoyable anthology are the work of priestesses and warriors; of philosophers and statesmen; of teenage girls, concerned for their birthday celebrations; of drunkards and brawlers; of grumpy old men, and chic young things. Their authors write – or sing – about hopes, fears, loves, losses, triumphs and humiliations. Every one of them lived and died between 1,900 and 2,800 years ago. The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse is a volume without precedent. It brings together the best of two traditions normally treated in isolation, and in doing so tells a captivating story about how literature and book-culture emerged from an oral society in which memory and learning were transmitted through song. The classical vision of lyric poetry as understood by the greatest ancient poets – Sappho and Horace, Bacchylides and Catullus – mingles and interacts with our expansive modern vision of the lyric as the brief, personal, emotional poetry of a human soul laid bare. Anyone looking for a picture of what ancient poets were up to when they were simply singing to the gods, or to their friends, or otherwise opening little verbal windows into their life and times can find it here. It is a volume full of fire and life: an undertaking of astonishing reach, and an accomplishment magisterial in its scope.

Author : Konstanínos A. Trypánis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Greek Verse written by Konstanínos A. Trypánis and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Coote
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780140585513
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse written by Stephen Coote and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by and about homosexuals includes authors, such as Sappho, Walter Whitman, W.H. Auden, and Allen Ginsberg

Author : The Jalaluddin Rumi
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141936991
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Verses written by The Jalaluddin Rumi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Drawing on diverse sources from bawdy tales and fables to stories of the prophet Mohammed, these verses are brief in expression yet copious in meaning.

Author : Richmond Lattimore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Lyrics written by Richmond Lattimore and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Poole
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Classical Verse written by Adrian Poole and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivalling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another.

Author : Theocritus
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Pastoral Poetry written by Theocritus and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1974 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: