Orpheus & Company
Author | : Deborah DeNicola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Today's poets provide a new spin on Greek myths.
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Author | : Deborah DeNicola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Today's poets provide a new spin on Greek myths.
Author | : Charles Segal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Classical literature |
ISBN | : |
This volume surveys the literary treatment of the Orpheus myth as the myth of the essence of poetry - the ability to encounter the fullest possible intensity of beauty and sorrow and to transform them into song. The first half of the book concentrates on the ancient literary tradition, from the myth's Greek origins through the influential poetic versions of Ovid and Virgil and its treatment by other Latin authors such as Horace and Seneca. Later chapters focus on the continuities of the myth in modern literature, including the poetry of H.D., Rukeyser, Rich, Ashbery, and, especially, Rilke. The author's leitmotif throughout is the relation of poetry to art, love and death, the 'three points of the Orphic triangle'. Through close readings of individual texts, he shows how various versions of the myth oscillate between a poetry of transcendence that asserts its power over the necessities of nature - including the ultimate necessity, death - and a poetry that celebrates its immersion in the stream of life.
Author | : Edward Burrough Brownlow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Canadian poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jenny C Mann |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2025-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691219249 |
A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to know: How do words produce action? In The Trials of Orpheus, Jenny Mann examines the key role the Orpheus story played in helping early modern writers and thinkers understand the mechanisms of rhetorical force. Mann demonstrates that the forms and figures of ancient poetry indelibly shaped the principles of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific knowledge. Mann explores how Ovid's version of the Orpheus myth gave English poets and natural philosophers the lexicon with which to explain language's ability to move individuals without physical contact. These writers and thinkers came to see eloquence as an aesthetic force capable of binding, drawing, softening, and scattering audiences. Bringing together a range of examples from drama, poetry, and philosophy by Bacon, Lodge, Marlowe, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and others, Mann demonstrates that the fascination with Orpheus produced some of the most canonical literature of the age. Delving into the impact of ancient Greek thought and poetry in the early modern era, The Trials of Orpheus sheds light on how the powers of rhetoric became a focus of English thought and literature.
Author | : Iain Crichton Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780900036651 |
Author | : Edward Burrough Brownlow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2015-07-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781330878880 |
Excerpt from Orpheus and Other Poems About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Edward Burrough Brownlow |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781979108539 |
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Unto the realm of Pluto many roads Lead with dark winding from the bright abodes Of men, and when life's last detaining thread Is cut by Iris, and the body, dead, With Charon's coin in palm, rests in the tomb Or on the pyre, the daemon of its doom After much pitiful forbearance tears The soul from its environment of cares With promise sweet of love's awaiting kiss, Of old friends greeting, and much holy bliss On shores Elysian, where all ways are peace, And all existence virtue without cease; But ere the fields of Asphodel are won Dire labours manifold must first be done
Author | : Hugh Donald Barclay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wilfred Rowland Childe |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780469873568 |
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