The Oxford Book Of Classical Verse
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| Author | : Adrian Poole |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 660 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivalling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another.
| Author | : Philip Larkin |
| Publisher | : Oxford Books of Verse |
| Total Pages | : 700 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : English poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780198121374 |
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
| Author | : John Gross |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0199556555 |
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.
| Author | : David Lehman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 1193 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 019516251X |
Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.
| Author | : Derek Attridge |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1975-03-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521205306 |
Sidney's statement in his Apology for Poetry that quantitative verse on the Latin model is more suitable than the accentual verse of the English tradition 'lively to express divers passions, by the low and lofty sound of the well-weighed syllable' is only one of numerous assertions of the superiority of classical over native metres made by English scholars and poets during the Renaissance, stretching from Roger Ascham some twenty years earlier to Ben Jonson some fifty years later.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2003-07-03 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1585108979 |
An anthology containing fresh and rhythmic translations of the great poets from the Augustan period, Golden Verses covers a broad range of verse with introduction, maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography and notes. Alessi's text is designed specifically for the college market, providing students with access to the thought and context at the roots of our culture. Designed to be read in conjunction with major works of the Augustan Age—Ovid's Metamorphosis and Vergil's Aeneid.
| Author | : Margaret Atwood |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 1984-04-01 |
| Genre | : Canadian poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780195404500 |
An impressive selection of some of the best work of Canadian poets and Atwood's brilliant introductory survey of Canadian poetry make this an excellent textbook choice.
| Author | : Thomas Kinsella |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2001-07-19 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780192801920 |
This magnificent anthology presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. The selection begins in pre-Christian times and closes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century verse. Poets featured include Swift, Goldsmith, W. B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney.
| Author | : Philip F. Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Oxford Oriental Monographs |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
The classical period of Arab civilization produced the most extensive and highly developed bacchic tradition in world literature, In this book, the author traces the history of classical Arabic wine poetry from its origins in sixth century Arabia to its heyday in Baghdad at the turn of theninth century. The focus is on the greatest and perhaps most likeable of Arabic poets, Abu Nuwas. Although wine poetry is only one of the many genres for which he is known, it is the one that has ensured his fame, and the one on which this book concentrates. The wine songs of the poet are analysedand their connections with poetics, ethics, and religion are explored. The author also puts Abu Nuwas in perspective by comparing him with his most important predecessors and contemporaries and by discussing his interaction with other poetic genres such as amatory, invective, ascetic, or gnomicverse.
| Author | : John Simpson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780192142214 |
From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and in this book John Simpson has brought together examples of exile from all over the world, and from all periods of history. The emphasis is on personal experience, with writers from Ovid to Solzhenitsyn describing their exile, their emotions, their struggle and their despair. For those who have chosen a life in exile, the response is more mixed: ambivalence about the country they have left and the country they have chosen suffuses the writing of intellectuals seeking freedom of speech, as of ex-pats living in India or Australia. Those persecuted for their faith or their politics rub shoulders with those fleeing from war, or from debt, or even from the weather. Castaways and spies, premiers and princes describe their departure, their reception and sometimes their return, in an anthology that is by turns inspiring, moving, and deeply thought-provoking. With sources ranging from police records, newspaper articles, interviews, letters and memoirs, as well as verse and fiction, and settings as remote as Iran and Russia, China and Palestine, The Oxford Book of Exile provides a fascinating insight into an experience that touches so many, and captures the imagination of us all.
