| Description |
xxxvi, 795 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN |
9781905570799 hardback |
| Contents |
Part I. Greek Lyric, Greek Epic, and Old Testament; the Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns -- Greekless Translators, Theorizing Scholars -- Selected Lyric Poets of Antiquity: Archilochus, Alcman, Anacreon & Ibycus -- Sappho: Antiquity's Poetess and Ours -- Sappho's Eroticism -- The Loves of Men, Gods, and Primordial Forces -- Lesbos, Troy and Environs; the Principal Greek Genres and Dialects -- Part II. Sappho and the "Lyric Nine," An Anesthetic for Lyric Translation -- The Aesthetic of English-Language Prosody in the Translation of Classical Verse -- Translatability: Achieving Charm and Distinction in Translation -- Translation as the Profession of Ignorance: Mary Barnard, Willis Barnstone, and Others -- Translations Compared -- Part III. Translations: Sappho, Alcman, Anacreon, Archilochus, Ibycus -- Part IV. Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid: The Epic Cycle in Progress -- Cosmic Preservation and the Heroism of Heracles -- Self-Perpetuation and the Heroism at Troy -- Imperishable Fame and the Evolution of Greek Epic -- Imperishable Fame Denied: Sappho's "Wedding of Hector and Andromache" -- Cataclysm Averted: Homer's Separation of Helen and Achilles -- Part V. Homeric and Sapphic Meter, Metric Formulae and Oral Composition, the Origins of Rhyming Poetry, Milton on Blank Verse -- Accentuation, Sound, and Word Order in Ancient Greek Poetry -- Part VI. Growing Latin from Greek Roots, Rome's Imperial Vision and Its Aftermath -- Part VII. Equal to the Gods: Poetic Sublimity, Inner Collapse -- Equal to a God: Form and Content in Convulsive Union -- Frenzied Emotion, Expressive Control: Form and Content Bound -- Modernism Wins Out: Form and Content Abandoned -- "Freedom, Freedom, Prison to the Free": The Obfuscatory Unfettered -- Sappho Unbound and Boundaryless - Theorized, Personalized, Politicized -- Boundaries, Artistic Fit, and What "Art" Means and Does -- Part VII. Not Making it New (or Better): Recent Iliads and Aeneids -- So Old It's New (and Better): The Smith/Miller Hexametric Iliad -- On Leaving Well Enough Alone: Rejecting Lattimore for R. Fitzgerald -- Pope's Iliad and E. FitzGerald's Rubaiyat; Pope on Chapman's Iliad -- Versions and Perversions of Homer: R. Fitzgerald, Fagles, and Logue -- Ezra Pound: Damage to Sextus Propertius. |
| Note |
Map on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-760) and index. |
| Subject |
Sappho -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
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Greek poetry -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
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Lyric poetry -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
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Eroticism in literature.
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Homosexuality in literature.
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