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The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present Book

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 704 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. This Landmark volume captures three Millennia of Greek poetry - more than 1.000 poems and 200 poets From the EPICS of of Homeric Greece to the historical and erotic Ironies of Cavafy. from the romances. hymns and bawdy rhymes of Byzantium to the innovative voices of the twentieth century. this essential companion to the Western literary tradition ings together the diverse strands of the Greek poetic tradition. The favorites are all here but The Greek Poets also presents neglected eras from the rise of Constantinople to the end of the Ottoman occupation. The editors present canonical poets such as Sappho and Pindar and modern Nobel laureates Seferis and Elytis. Presenting their own translations. they include the work of past masters such as Robert Fagles and WS Merwin along with a younger generation of translator...Read More

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  • ASDA

    Ranging from the epics of Homeric Greece to the historical and erotic ironies of Cavafy from the romances hymns and bawdy rhymes of Byzantium to the innovative voices of the twentieth century this title presents the diverse strands of the Greek poetic tradition.

  • Blackwell

    The Greek Poets is a celebration of Western civilization's oldest poetic tradition. It is a landmark volume that presents three millennia of Greek poetry - over 1,000 poems by 185 poets - much of which has been neglected or untranslated in the past.

  • Foyles

    Three thousand years of the greatest Greek poetry, exquisitely translated and assembled in a handsome volume sure to be a modern classic.

  • Pickabook

    Peter Constantine (Editor), Rachel Hadas (Editor), Edmund Keeley (Editor)

  • 0393060837
  • 9780393060836
  • Keeley Van Kyck Haas
  • 5 February 2010
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 736
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