Morrison re-examines the relationship of Hellenistic poetry to Archaic poetry. He demonstrates how Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius developed their primary narrators by exploiting and adapting models from Archaic poets, including Homer and Hesiod, and genres such as 'The H…
The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry brings together the most remarkable verse written in the British Isles over the course of the past twelve centuries, offering the greatest diversity of poetic voices in any anthology of its kind. From Shakespeare's memorable sonnets to Ke…
Traces the evolution of the Romantic approach to literary criticism and compares it to the other methods which prevailed in the early nineteenth century.
A study of different trends in English criticism during the first several decades of this century.
Traces the evolution of the Romantic approach to literary criticism and compares it to the other methods which prevailed in the early nineteenth century.
"Ancient Greek poetry, even at its most sophisticated, presupposed a degree of familiarity with and assimilation of many more elementary types of song. The continuous if uneven interplay between high-flown literature, on the one hand, and sub-literary popular oral song types, on…
"In Eroticism in Ancient and Medieval Greek Poetry, John Petropoulos discusses the features of ancient Greek poetry, particularly amatory poetry, that can be attributed to the influence of popular song and, conversely, looks at how 'higher' poetry affected 'lower' genres in anti…
