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Burton (Übers.) Raffel

Pure Pagan

Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments

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For there is indeed something we can call the spirit of ancient Greece-a carefully tuned voice that speaks out of the grave with astonishing clarity and grace , a distinctive voice that, taken as a whole, is like no other voice that has ever sung on this earth.”-BURTON RAFFEL, from his PrefaceFor centuries, the poetry of Homer, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Sappho, and Archilochus has served as one of our primary means of connecting with the wholly vanished world of ancient Greece. But the works of numerous other great and prolific poets-Alkaios, Meleager, and Simonides, to name a few-are rarely translated into English , and are largely unknown to… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-307-43164-6
  • EAN: 9780307431646
  • Produktnummer: 15738144
  • Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 112 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 557 KB

Über den Autor


Burton Raffel was a translator, poet, and scholar whose major translations include The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, Don Quijote, The Red and the Black, and Gargantua and Pantagruel. He also annotated several Shakespeare plays for Yale University Press. He was the distinguished professor emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette until 2003. He lived in Louisiana until his death in 2015.Guy Davenport (1927-2005), a critic and fiction writer, is best known for two books of essays, The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form. He published many collections of short stories and numerous translations of early Greek poets and playwrights. A professor of English at the University of Kentucky from 1964 to 1990, he was also a painter and illustrator.

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