Author: HomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, Greek (Classical)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Homeric Hymns
Author: HomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, Greek (Classical)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Homeric hymns, tr. into Engl. prose by J. Edgar
Author: HomerusSinging by Herself
Author: Amelia WorsleyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501776282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Singing by Herself reinterprets the rise of literary loneliness by foregrounding the female and feminized figures who have been overlooked in previous histories of solitude. Many of the earliest records of the terms "lonely" and "loneliness" in British literature describe solitaries whose songs positioned them within the tradition of female complaint. Amelia Worsley shows how these feminized solitaries, for whom loneliness was both a space of danger and a space of productive retreat, helped to make loneliness attractive to future lonely poets, despite the sense of suspicion it evoked. Although loneliness today is often associated with states of atomized interiority, soliloquy, and self-enclosure, this study of eighteenth-century poetry disrupts the presumed association between isolation, singular speech, and bounded models of poetic subjectivity. In five chapters focused on lonely poet figures in the works of John Milton, Anne Finch, Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, and Charlotte Smith—which also take account of the wider eighteenth-century fascination with literary loneliness—Singing by Herself shows how poets increasingly associated the new literary mode of being alone with states of disembodiment, dispersal, and echoic self-doubling. Seemingly solitary lonely voices often dissolve into polyvocal, allusive community, Worsley argues, when in dialogue with each other and also with classical figures of feminized lament such as Sappho, Echo, and Philomela. The book's provocative reflections on lyric mean that it will have a broad appeal to scholars interested in the history of poetry and poetics, as well as to those who study the literary history of gender, affect, and emotion.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Edinburgh University calendar
Author: Educational Times
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.