Author: HomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Four Books of Pope's Iliad
Author: HomerPreface
Author: William ShakespeareThe Iliad
Author: HomerPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062046292
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan War Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war. Soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished, hero and coward, men, women, young, old—The Iliad evokes in poignant, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Trojan War. And, as told by Homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages. Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander’s new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source—a translation epic in scale and yet devastating in its precision and power.
The Shield of Achilles
Author: W. H. AudenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691256586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers The Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H. Auden’s most important, intricately designed, and unified book of poetry. In addition to its famous title poem, which reimagines Achilles’s shield for the modern age, when war and heroism have changed beyond recognition, the book also includes two sequences—“Bucolics” and “Horae Canonicae”—that Auden believed to be among his most significant work. Featuring an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden’s collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work. As Jacobs writes in the introduction, Auden’s collection “is the boldest and most intellectually assured work of his career, an achievement that has not been sufficiently acknowledged.” Describing the book’s formal qualities and careful structure, Jacobs shows why The Shield of Achilles should be seen as one of Auden’s most central poetic statements—a richly imaginative, beautifully envisioned account of what it means to live, as human beings do, simultaneously in nature and in history.
The Works of Alexander Pope: The Dunciad, in four books
Author: Alexander PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Life of Pope
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The Dunciad, in four books
Author: Alexander PopeThe Dunciad, complete, in four books, according to Mr. Pope's last improvements. With several additions [&c.]. Publ. by Mr. Warburton
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Author: Alexander PopeThe Dunciad in Four Books
Author: Valerie RumboldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317863240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this authoritative edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. Accessibly presented on the same page as Pope’s text are explanatory notes, written in a style adapted to the needs of undergraduate readers, but still comprehensive enough to address the interests of scholars. The many books and pamphlets to which Pope refers have been examined in detail, and the commentary takes advantage of the fifty years’ scholarship on literary, bibliographical, cultural and political aspects of the period which has accumulated since James Sutherland’s The Dunciad, volume five of the Twickenham Edition. A substantial introduction offers a stimulating and helpful approach to the work, and the bibliography includes extensive suggestions for further reading.
All Day Permanent Red
Author: Christopher LoguePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374529299
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Originally published in 2003 by Faber and Faber Ltd., London.