Classical Genres and English PoetryCroom Helm, 1988 - 235 sider Straightforward explanation, with plentiful use of examples, of the genres in classical poetry and their influence on modern poets. The poets discussed range from the Romans to Yeats and Auden. |
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A.E. Housman Achilles Amores Antistrophe Apollo Auden Augustus battle beauty beginning brief Brueghel Callimachus carpe-diem poems Catullus celebrate Chryses Classical climactic term consolatory contrast Daphnis death Deinomenes depicted ekphrasis elegy emphasises encomia English epic epigram Ergoteles eulogy example fame foil genre goddess gods Graeco-Roman Greek grief Hellenistic Heracles Hieron Homer Horace Horace's Horatian human hymn hymnal hypomnesis J.V. Cunningham lament and consolation Latin lines literary literature Lycidas lyre manly consolation Martial Marvell's Menander Menander Rhetor motif Muse nunc Odes Ovid Oxford pastoral Persius Pindar poet poet's portrays praise prayer priamel Propertius recusatio rejects Renaissance request Roman Sappho satire scene shield sing song Sonnet speech stanza style subgenre themes Theocritus thou tibi Tibullus topics University Press Vergil verse victory W.B. Yeats W.H. Auden word writing Yeats Yeats's Yvor Winters Zeus γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν