The Bow and the Lyre
The Bow and the Lyre

Author: Octavio Paz

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0292753462

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Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy

Author: Blake Wilson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1108488072

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The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.

The Bow and the Lyre
The Bow and the Lyre

Author: Seth Benardete

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0742565963

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In this interpretation of the Odyssey, Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings.

A Dictionary of Symbols
A Dictionary of Symbols

Author: J. E. Cirlot

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2023-07-11

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 1504085655

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This classic encyclopedia of symbols by the renowned Spanish poet illuminates the imagery of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. J. E. Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature—a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer, poet, critic, and champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped introduce him to the study of symbolism. This volume explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where nothing is meaningless, and everything is in some way related to something else. Running from “abandonment” to “zone” by way of “flute” and “whip,” spanning the cultures of the world, and including a wealth of visual images to further bring the reality of the symbol home, A Dictionary of Symbols is a luminous and illuminating investigation of the works of eternity in time.

The Lyre Book
The Lyre Book

Author: Matthew Kilbane

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2024-02-27

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1421448130

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Redefines modern lyric poetry at the intersection of literary and media studies. In The Lyre Book, Matthew Kilbane urges literary scholars to consider lyric not as a genre or a reading practice but as a media condition: the generative tension between writing and sound. In addition to clarifying issues central to the study of modern poetry—including its proximity to popular song, hallowed objecthood, and seeming autonomy from historical determination—this revisionary theory of lyric presents a new history of modern US poetry as one sonorous practice among many clamorous others. Focusing on the mid-twentieth century, Kilbane traces the impact of new sound technologies on a diverse array of literary and musical works by Lorine Niedecker, Harry Partch, Louis and Celia Zukofsky, Sterling Brown, John Wheelwright, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Russell Atkins, and Helen Adam. Kilbane shows how literary critics can look to media history to illuminate poetry's social life, and how media scholars can read poetry for insight into the cultural history of technology. In this book, the lyric poem emerges as a sensitive barometer of technological change.

Sappho's Lyre
Sappho's Lyre

Author: Diane J. Rayor

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991-08-22

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780520910966

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Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets—the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.