The idea of lyric : lyric modes in ancient and modern poetry / W.R. Johnson
by Johnson, W. R. (Walter Ralph)
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Berkeley : University of California Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 214 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Swans in crystal: the problem of modern lyric and its pronouns -- Praise and blame: Greek lyric: The fragments and the music ; Archilochus and Pound and Ethopoeia ; The rhetoric of Sappho ; The waning of song and its last renewal: Anacreon, Simonides, and Pindar ; The genius of Greek lyric -- On the absence of ancient lyric theory -- In the birdcage of the muses: ancient literary lyric: When the sea is remembered: Callimachus and Meleager ; The sparrow and nemesis: Catullus ; In the deserts of the heart: Horace -- The figure of Ariadne: some lyric mongrels and lyric monologue -- The amplitude of time: Whitman and modern choral. Subjects; Lyric poetry History and criticism. Classical poetry History and criticism.Lyric poetry Classical literature. Lyric poetry in Western European languages to ca 1960 Critical studies.
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- Title
- The idea of lyric : lyric modes in ancient and modern poetry / W.R. Johnson
- Author
- Johnson, W. R. (Walter Ralph)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520044622
- ISBN 13
- 9780520044623
- Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1982
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