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When Michael Schmidt’s last book, Lives of the Poets, was published, Mark Strand called it “a tour de force, an astonishing view of the whole of poetry in English, a superb read.” Now Schmidt brings the same erudition, insight, and élan to The First Poets—the story of the ancient Greeks whose work continues to influence poetry in our own time.Poetry takes its bearings from the brilliant constellation of early and classical Greek poets, who have long been overshadowed by the great Greek dramatists. In The First Poets, Schmidt rescues the lives of these poets from their relative obscurity. Here is Orpheus, the first of the first poets, healer, mystic, and magical fixer; and Homer, about whom almost nothing is known for certain except the magnificence of his two great epic poems. Here are Linos and Arion, who survive only in legend; and Amphion, who survives through the tales we ascribe to him. Here are Sappho, the greatest Greek woman writer, and Hesiod; Hipponax, the “dirty old man of poetry”; and Theocritus, the father of the pastoral; and many others.Combining the verifiable facts of their lives and the narratives provided by later writers, Schmidt walks the fine line between fact and scholarly conjecture to create vivid, animated, wonderfully compelling portraits of these ancestors of our culture. World History Timeline Ancient Greek civilization timeline ... - TimeMaps Timeline and overview of the civilization of the Ancient Greeks one of the most brilliant civilizations in world history ... back to TimeMap of World History: Ancient Greece Maps. The ... GREEK AND ROMAN COMEDY - TheatreHistory.com THREE of the most important phases of Greek tragedy are preserved for us in the extant dramas of Aeschylus of Sophocles and of Euripides. Other tragic writers there were whose works are now ... Greek literature Britannica.com Greek literature body of writings in the Greek language with a continuous history extending from the 1st millennium bc to the present day. From the beginning its writers were Greeks living not ... Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets The verse of the English Romantic poets is as daunting in its scope and complexity as it is dazzling in its technique and beautiful in its language. Professor Willard Spiegelman illuminates ... George Gordon Byron - Poet Academy of American Poets George Gordon Byron was born on January 22 1788 in Aberdeen Scotland and inherited his family's English title at the age of ten becoming Baron Byron of Rochdale. Abandoned by his father at an ... Movements : Poetry through the Ages - WebExhibits Movements through history. Throughout history there have been hundreds of major and minor poetic movements and communities. Major community-based movements such as the Ancient Greek poetry ... poets.org Academy of American Poets poets.org - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. ... after Z. S ... Sappho - Wikipedia Today Sappho is a symbol of female homosexuality; the common term lesbian is an allusion to Sappho. However she has not always been so considered. In classical Athenian comedy Sappho was ... Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body in which largely nude male figures were generally ... Ancient Greek Poets - Crystalinks Alcman. Alcman (7th cent. BC) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta. He is the earliest representative of the Alexandrinian canon of the nine lyric poets (the others being Sappho ...
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