Michael Schmidt

The First Poets (eBook, ePUB)

Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307556172
• Artikelnr.: 39248964

Autorenporträt

Michael Schmidt is the editor of PN Review, and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester, England, where he is the director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
I. Orpheus of Thrace
II. The Legend Poets
III. Homer
IV. The Homeric Apocrypha
V. The Iliad and the Odyssey
VI. Hesiod
VII. Archilochus of Paros
VIII. Alcman of Sardis
IX. Mimnermus of Colophon
X. Semonides of Amorgos
XI. Alcaeus of Mytilene
XII. Sappho of Eressus
XIII. Theognis of Megara
XIV. Solon of Athens
XV. Stesichorus of Himera
XVI. Ibycus of Rhegion
XVII. Anacreon of Teos
XVIII. Hipponax of Ephesus
XIX. Simonides of Cos
XX. Corinna of Tanagra
XXI. Pindar of Thebes
XXII. Bacchylides of Cos
XXIII. Callimachus of Cyrene
XXIV. Apollonius of Rhodes
XXV. Theocritus of Syracuse
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments