Download or read book The Poets of Greece Classic Reprint written by Edwin Arnold and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poets of Greece Invited by the eminent Firm which has published this volume to write The Poets of Greece for them, I might well have declined the task, both because of its magnitude and my unceasing literary duties. But the temptation of being thus gently obliged to wander once more in the myrtle-gardens of Greek Song was too strong to resist; and if my toil has been great, so has been my pleasure. 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.
Download or read book Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece written by Bruno Gentili and published by . This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize, develops a new Picture of the literary history of Greece. An essentially practical art, ancient Greek poetry was clocely linked to the realities of social and political life and to the actual behavior of individuals within a community. Its mythological content was didactic and pedagogical. But Greek poetry differs radically from modern forms in its mode of communication: it was designed not for reading but for performance, with musical accompaniment, before an audience. In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.
Download or read book Chapters on Poetry and Poets Vol 1 written by Henry Alford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chapters on Poetry and Poets, Vol. 1: The Poets of Ancient Greece This series is not, nor was it intended to be, complete a projected chapter on Pindar has been unavoidably de layed, and would willingly have taken in more-of the perfect dramas of Sophocles, and the touching scenes of Euripides. But this may be done hereafter. Meanwhile the publication of the present series may serve as a feeler for the probable success of any future renewal of the plan. 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.
Download or read book Studies of the Greek Poets written by John Addington Symonds and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies of the Greek Poets: Second Series Eupzdocles - The Grandeur of his Fsme - His Versatility of Genius His Self-exaltation - His M ysticism - His su pposed Miracles - Legends about his Death - His Political Action - His Poems - Estimation in which the Ancients held them - Thoir Prophetic Fervour - Bclicf in Metempsychosis - Purifying Bites - Contempt for the Knowledge of the Senses - I'hysical Theories - The Poem on Nature - The Four Elements - The Sphserus - Love and Discord - The Eclecticism ot' 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.
Download or read book The Greek Poets written by Nathan Haskell Dole and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Greek Poets: An Anthology As regards classical literature, the winnowing fan of Time has in a large measure performed this task. When it is remembered that out of all the vast mass of prose and verse that was produced during the palmy days of Hellenic civilization, scarcely more than six thousand lines remain as the product of a century and a half of the intensest productivity, that a multitude of those who were highly regarded in their own time, are now nothing more than a name, the extent of the loss may be easily appreciated. 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.
Download or read book Greek Lyric Poets Classic Reprint written by Francis Brooks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greek Lyric Poets No elegiac passages have been inserted. The greater number of those contained in the third volume of Bergk are either epigrams or epitaphs, and therefore alien to the nature of the lyric, and the elegiac metre is in itself of so marked a type, and has such widely different associa tions and effects from those of the lyric, that their introduction would have been doubly incongruous. The Anacreontea have also been omitted. They are of quite late date, and, though by no means devoid of merit, their fluent completeness would have tended to out weigh the much higher poetical excellence of the genuine fragments of Anacreon. 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.
Download or read book Greek Melic Poets Classic Reprint written by Herbert Weir Smyth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greek Melic Poets It is usually the fate of the maker of an anthology to please none of the judicious because each is convinced that his taste is superior to that of the editor. The possibility of escaping this fate on the part of the author of the present volume, which aims at collecting those fragments of the song-writers of Greece that have a distinctly human interest, is all too great: an untoward chance has bequeathed to us such a meagre portion of the wealth of Greek song that the task of selection is comparatively easy. The triumphal odes of Pindar have indeed been handed down fairly complete and are elsewhere accessible. Only in the case of Bacchylides, who has now almost passed from his position as a fragmentary poet, is the material over abundant for the purpose of an anthology. If I have not included all that is best in him, it is because a few of his finer odes are mutilated in parts beyond all hope of certain restoration. Of the rest of the song poetry of Greece only broken columns and ruined architraves remain to attest the beauty of the unshattered edifice. 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.
Download or read book Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets written by Henry Nelson Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets: Designed Principally for the Use of Young Persons at School and College In submitting this work to the public, I trust I may justify myself against any charge of individual presumption, by alleging the apparent usefulness of the undertaking, if well executed, and also that the matter itself is principally, though not exclusively, intended for young persons. It is possible, indeed, that a perusal of these introductions may not be unserviceable to many well educated readers of any age, and of either sex; but I do not directly address myself to graduates of any degree. By those who are still called boys, I hope the teaching of him, who has ceased to be one, will be as kindly received as it is affectionately given. My wish is to enable youthful student to form a more just and liberal judgement of the characters and merits of the Greek poets than he has commonly an opportunity of doing at school; and for that purpose to habituate his mind to sound principles of literary criticism. 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.
Download or read book The Greek Anthology Classic Reprint written by Neaves Neaves and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Greek Anthology The life of Hesiod, remote from towns, and far away up the gulf of time, and his poetry devoid of sensation and excitement in its almost impersonal didacticism, place the writer who deals with them at a disadvan tage, as compared with one whose theme is an ancient epic, or a Greek or Roman historian. He lacks, in a great measure, the choice Of parallels by aid of which he may abridge the distance between the shadowy past and the living present. He cannot easily per suade himself or his readers to realise, in the inspired rustic Of Ascra, a heart once pregnant with celestial fire, when he reflects how foreign to the wildest dreams Of an English ploughman would be the redue tion to verse Of his rural experiences, or, still more, Of his notions about the divine governance Of the universe. Yet this is scarcely an excuse for over looking the possible contemporary of Homer, the poet. 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.
Download or read book Greek Prose Composition Classic Reprint written by Henry Carr Pearson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greek Prose Composition Part I contains, in graded lessons, the principal points of Greek syntax, the unusual and non-essential being purposely omitted. These lessons are designed for use at the beginning of the second year's study of Greek, thereby serving as a partial review of the first year's work and as an introduction to the composition work in connection with the reading of Xenophon's Anabasis. Part II contains short, simple English sentences, based on Books I - IV of the Anabasis. These should be used daily in connection with the reading of the text. Part III contains connected English prose, based on Books I - IV of the Anabasis. This is carefully graded, so that the stu dent who performs faithfully the work outlined here will be able to pass the entrance examination of any of the American colleges. The method of writing Greek at sight used in this book needs a word of explanation. It is the outgrowth of the author's personal experience in the classroom, and his belief that the best results can be obtained only by systematic practice in connection with the regular work. 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.
Download or read book In Greece with the Classics Classic Reprint written by William Amory Gardner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Greece With the Classics This book is the outcome of a month spent in Greece in the early spring of 1905. From my own experience, I am led to hope that other travellers will find their pleasure in visiting scenes of classic association increased by reading on the spot pas sages from the ancient poets and story-tellers, which those scenes recall. The following pages contain a number of such passages, connected by a slender thread of narrative. 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.
Download or read book Lectures on Greek Poetry Classic Reprint written by J. W. Mackail and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Greek Poetry In The Springs of Helicon, I dealt with the progress of poetry in England as, in the couise of its evolution, it took shape in the work of three great poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton. In these three poets, at long intervals, the movement of poetry became as it were visible and incarnate. Each absorbed into himself, and communicated to his own age, and to us, the effective integrated meaning of poetry as it had then been reached. The rest of English poetry, during the three centuries in question, places itself in relation to them. They supply key-notes, points of arrival and points of departure, for the whole Of English poetry regarded as a continuous, progressive, and organic evolution. This volume of lectures proceeds on a somewhat analogous method. It does not on the one hand make any attempt to give a general history of Greek poetry, or any complete review Of the work of the Greek poets; nor on the other hand does it deal with'its subject by abstraction and generalisation; and it treats of the poetical movement which was part of the life, and is still part of the vitalising force of Hellenism, mainly as that movement was embodied or manifested in the work Of single poets. 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.
Download or read book Selections from the Greek Lyric Poets written by Henry Mather Tyler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From the Greek Lyric Poets: With a Historical Introduction an Explanatory Notes It is now twenty-six years since this little collection of Greek poems was first presented to the public as a text-book to be used in our American schools and colleges. In the revision which is now offered it is hoped that the friends whom the book has won may be pleased by its new appear ance, and that it may be better fitted to encourage interest in this form of poetry which is so closely connected with the common life of the Greek people. We have no literature which gives a more truthful picture of what the Greeks really were. If we are seeking expressions of the Greek spirit, try ing to find the sincerest utterances of Greek feeling, we can search nowhere with better results than among the fragments which are left to us of this popular poetry. 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.
Download or read book The First Poets written by Michael Schmidt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life for the general reader the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination. Starting with the legendary and possibly mythical Orpheus and with Homer, Schmidt conjures a host of our literary forebears. From Hipponax, “the dirty old man of poetry,” to Theocritus, the father of pastoral; from Sappho, who threw herself from a cliff for love, to Hesiod, who claimed a visit from the Muses–the stories in The First Poets masterfully merge fact and conjecture into animated and compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture.
Download or read book Selections From the Greek Lyric Poets written by Henry M. Tyler and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From the Greek Lyric Poets: With a Historical Introduction and Explanatory Notes The poems which were included in the first edition are, with a very few exceptions, also in the present work. To these have been added the fragment from Alcman and four from Bacchylides, which can hardly fail to prove a welcome addition. 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.
Download or read book Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets Vol 1 written by Henry Nelson Coleridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets, Vol. 1: Designed Principally for the Use of Young Persons at School and College The Author's intention is, under favora ble circumstances, to continue these Intro ductions through the whole body of Greek. 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.
Download or read book Anthologia Graeca written by Francis St. John Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Anthologia Graeca: Passages From the Greek PoetsThe works to which I have most often referred in the Notes and Introductions, are Curtius' Principles of Greek Etymology, translated by A. S. Wilkins and E. B. England, Dr. Clyde's Syntax, the best editions of the poets, and also those portions of standard authors which treat of the history of Greek poetry in its successive stages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
