Author: Richard Knott BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Obiter; Wayside Verses: Being Meditations of a Country Clergyman; Chiefly Sacred
Author: Richard Knott BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879
Author: Catherine ReillyPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0720123186
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
These two volumes list late-and mid-Victorian poets, with brief biographical information and bibliographical details of published works. The major strength of the works is the 'discovery' of very many minor poets and their work, unrecorded elsewhere.
The Athenaeum
Author: The Union Review
Author: The Spectator
Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Philosophy of Disenchantment
Author: Edgar SaltusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pessimism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Memories and Adventures
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Homer
Author: Andrew FordPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501740660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Focusing on the critical moment in Western literature when the heroic tales of the Greek oral tradition began to be preserved in writing, he examines these questions in the light of Homeric poetry. Through fresh readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and referring to other early epics as well, Ford deepens our understanding of what poetry was at a time before written texts, before a developed sense of authorship, and before the existence of institutionalized criticism. Placing what is known about Homer's art in the wider context of Homer's world, Ford traces the effects of the oral tradition upon the development of the epic and addresses such issues as the sources of the poet's inspiration and the generic constraints upon epic composition. After exploring Homer's poetic vocabulary and his fictional and mythical representations of the art of singing, Ford reconstructs an idea of poetry much different from that put forth by previous interpreters. Arguing that Homer grounds his project in religious rather than literary or historical terms, he concludes that archaic poetry claims to give a uniquely transparent and immediate rendering of the past. Homer: The Poetry of the Past will be stimulating and enjoyable reading for anyone interested in the traditions of poetry, as well as for students and scholars in the fields of classics, literary theory and literary history, and intellectual history.