Tombs Of Ancient Poets

Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192561030
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tombs of the Ancient Poets written by Nora Goldschmidt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, the collection makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called 'Tomb of Virgil'; from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets' graves, to the 'graveyard of the imagination' constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, the essays collected here explore the position of ancient poets' tombs in the cultural imagination and demonstrate the rich variety of ways in which they exemplify an essential mode of the reception of ancient poetry, poised as they are between literary reception and material culture.

Author : GOLDSCHMIDT & GRAZIOSI.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191865442
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TOMBS OF ANCIENT POETS. written by GOLDSCHMIDT & GRAZIOSI. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408058
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cut These Words into My Stone written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society. Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones. Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well, Was drawn down by his own silent reflection. His mother, afraid he had no breath left, Hauled him back up wringing wet. He had a little. He didn't taint the nymphs' deep home. He dozed off in her lap. He's sleeping still. These words, translated from the original Greek by poet and filmmaker Michael Wolfe, mark the passing of a child who died roughly 2,000 years ago. Ancient Greek epitaphs honor the lives, and often describe the deaths, of a rich cross section of Greek society, including people of all ages and classes— paupers, fishermen, tyrants, virgins, drunks, foot soldiers, generals—and some non-people—horses, dolphins, and insects. With brief commentary and notes, this bilingual collection of 127 short, witty, and often tender epigrams spans 1,000 years of the written word. Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.

Author : Johnson K. Gao
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359440819
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gao's Happy Wedding Waltz Plus Ancient Poem Songs written by Johnson K. Gao and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The price of this 148 pages' songbook at Amazon and Barnes & Noble bookstores, is set at zero profit. (

Author : liping guo
Publisher : liping guo
ISBN 13 : 1304779904
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Ancient Poetry Tao Yuanming written by liping guo and published by liping guo. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has historically been a "land of poetry", and classical poetry is a marvel of traditional Chinese culture. As early as 3,000 years ago, our ancestors created excellent poems represented by the "300 Poems". Since then, every historical era has produced fruitful poetic creations, many of which have become popular and have been recited to this day. This series of "Appreciation of Chinese Classical Poetry" selects the best works of the most representative poets and lyricists in history and provides detailed and popular translations and commentaries in an attempt to introduce the most precious cultural treasures created by ancient Chinese people to contemporary readers at home and abroad. The Book of Songs, represented by the "National Winds", and the Chu Rhetoric, represented by the "Li Sao", have had a far-reaching influence on the poetry world of the later generations of Chinese poets, both in terms of their ideological contents and artistic techniques. Chinese poetry reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty, presenting what later generations called the "Sheng Tang Meteorology" and "Youthful Spirit", and it is not difficult to see from poets such as Li Bai and Du Fu, and from the poems they left behind.

Author : Emily Vermeule
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520044043
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry written by Emily Vermeule and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greeks devoted a significant portion of their poetic and artistic energy to exploring themes of death. Vermeule examines the facts and fictions of Greek death, including burial and mourning, visions of the underworld, souls and ghosts, the value of heroic death in battle, the quest for immortality, the linked powers of death, sleep, and love, and more.

Author : Morton Wilfred Bloomfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859912792
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of the Poet in Early Societies written by Morton Wilfred Bloomfield and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1989 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloomfield and Dunn describe the varying roles which "poets" have historically filled within society, whether ancient, medieval, or pre-modern and identify the key functions of the poet figure. He (or sometimes she) supports the ruler and is in turn rewarded for a central service to the tribe; he exercises his authority by an apparently magical understanding of the past, present, and future; and, whenever called upon to perform an official rite, he knows how to wield the appropriate traditional, esoteric utterances. In order to illustrate the ways in which this kind of poetic function can be seen to have been exercised in early Irish literature, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, early Norse and Old English the authors draw on a wide-range of texts. The study concludes with an examination of the implications of their findings for twentieth century readers exploring the utterances of poets remote from them in time or space.

Author : English poetry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reliques of ancient English poetry, by T. Percy. Repr. entire from the author's last ed. With memoir and critical dissertation, by G. Gilfillan written by English poetry and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Vol. 1-3) written by Various Authors and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work gives a unique opportunity to dive into the world of ancient British poetry and legends. Here, a reader will find the primary sources for the epic stories about Gilderoy, Winifred, Bryan, Sir Cauline, King Estmere, Sir Guy, King Arthur, the Fairy Queen, and many more. A collection in three volumes contains numerous works by famous and anonymous authors adapted to modern English. The significance of this work is apparent. It was the first collection of ballades in English poetry of this size. It influenced the Romantic movement greatly and contributed to the revivals of ballades in England. Robert Burns, Wordsworth, and Coleridge based their lyric poems on this collection. Although, this work could never see the light of the day. Back in the 18th century, Irish Bishop Thomas Percy saved a manuscript almost set afire by a housemaid. It was an ancient collection of ballades, which inspired the Bishop for further research. Today, it's not just an important historical book; it is also a great source of study materials as well as an exciting read for anyone fond of history and British poetry.

Author : John Bacon Sawrey Morritt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Vindication of Homer and of the Ancient Poets and Historians, who Have Recorded the Siege and Fall of Troy written by John Bacon Sawrey Morritt and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: