After Callimachus (eBook)

Poems

Stephanie Burt (Autor)

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2020
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20191-7 (ISBN)

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Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Greeks and Romans, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until now. In After Callimachus, esteemed poet and critic Stephanie Burt's attentive translations and inspired adaptations introduce the work, spirit, and letter of Callimachus to today's poetry readers.Skillfully combining intricate patterns of sound and classical precedent with the very modern concerns of sex, gender, love, death, and technology, these poems speak with a twenty-first-century voice, while also opening multiple gateways to ancient worlds. This Callimachus travels the Mediterranean, pays homage to Athena and Zeus, develops erotic fixations, practices funerary commemoration, and brings fresh gifts for the cult of Artemis. This reimagined poet also visits airports, uses Tumblr and Twitter, listens to pop music, and fights contemporary patriarchy. Burt bears careful fealty to Callimachus's whole poems, even as she builds freely from some of the hundreds of surviving fragments. Here is an ancient Greek poet made fresh for our times. An informative foreword by classicist Mark Payne places Burt's renderings of Callimachus in literary and historical context.After Callimachus is at once a contribution to contemporary poetry and a new endeavor in the art of classical adaptation and translation.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2020
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Co-Autor: Mark Payne
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Academic publishing • Adult • Adviser • Aeneid • Aetia • Aetion • Agronomy • Alice Oswald • Allegory • Allusion • Ancient Greek Literature • Ancient Greek religion • Anne Carson • Annette Harder • Anomie • Apollo • Apollonius • Apprenticeship • aratus • Archery • Argonautica • Atheism • author • Autobiography of Red • Bankruptcy • Barley • Beech • beeswax • Beholder (Dungeons & Dragons) • Bell Pepper • Benjamin Acosta-Hughes • Bloviation • Bread • Breathing • Brill’s Companion to Callimachus • cabbage • Callimachus • Capital Market • Capitoline Games • Career • C. A. Trypanis • cattle • Cedric Whitman • celery • Charites • Charles Simic • charm bracelet • chemical reaction • Christopher Logue • city-state • Classical Antiquity • claustrophobia • Clio • Complete Poems • Coracle • Crete • cultivator • Cydippe • Cy Twombly • Date-plum • david hinton • Decision-Making • deity • delicacy • Diane Rayor • Digestion • digital edition • Disease • dividend • Doctor of Philosophy • dover publications • dowry • Drinking • Drinking Water • dumpster diving • Eclogues • Edmund Keeley • Email • Embarrassment • Emily Wilson • english poetry • enthusiasm • Epic Poetry • Epigram • Epilogue • eroticism • Essay • Euripides • Evolution • Explanation • Extempore • Ezra Pound • Faculty (academic staff) • Famine food • Fletching • Floppy disk • forehead • Francesco Redi • Frank Nisetich • Fresh water • fuel • Galatea • Generosity • Gesture • God Knows (novel) • Graywolf Press • Greek Literature • Grief • Hair • harvest festival • Hecale • Hecale and Other Fragments • Helen DeWitt • hephaestus • Hesiod • Hexameter • Hippolyta • Hipponax • Hold your horses • Homage to Sextus Propertius • Homer • Homeric Hymns • hoplite • Hormone • Household • Human Capital • Husk • Iambi • Idiot • if not, winter • iliad • Imagination • Indication (medicine) • ingot • insect • Investment • Investor • James Russell Lowell • John Maynard Keynes • Johns Hopkins University Press • jorie graham • Journal of Economic Perspectives • just-so story • Knossos • Ladle (spoon) • Leather • Lecture • Lens (anatomy) • Library of Alexandria • Lindos • literal translation • Literature • lock of hair • loeb classical library • London Review of Books • Louis MacNeice • Luigi Lehnus • Lunch • Lyra • magnetic tape • mansion • Marked Cards • Marketing • Maturity (psychological) • meal • Mechanic • Menstruation • Meteorite • minimum wage • Modernity • Molecule • Monica Youn • Monograph • Mount Olympus • Musaeus: Hero and Leander • Muse • Music Is • My Country • My Paper • narrative • narrative poetry • Nicander • Nobel prize • Non-fiction • Observation • obstacle • Ocean Girl • odyssey • olive oil • organism • Ovid • Ox • Oxford University Press • Oxyrhynchus • Palinode • Pelasgians • Perieres • Peter Cole • Philip Sherrard • Physiology • plough • Poetics (Aristotle) • Poetry • Polemic • Prediction • Private Equity • procession • professional development • Propertius • Prose • Proximate cause • Publication • Rainer Maria Rilke • raw meat • Reactionary • Recipe • recurve bow • Reproduction • Research assistant • Research institute • rhetoric • Rhyme • Rill • Robert Schmiel • Roland Barthes • Rosanna Warren • Ruminant • Sappho • Shame • Share repurchase • sharpening • Shock jock • Simonides • Solomon Ibn Gabirol • Solvent • Spontaneous Generation • Spoor (animal) • Stanley Lombardo • Stephen Burt • Sub-Saharan Africa • Susan Stephens • Symposium (Plato) • Tapenade • Tax • Technology • Testicle • the last samurai • Theocritus • The Other Hand • The Talents (play) • The Wealth of Nations • thicket • third century BCE • Thomas Gelzer • Thought • Tiresias • tomb • Tooth • Top sirloin • To this Day • Tragedy • Trench • Unibrow • University of California Press • uterus • Virgil • Wheat • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20191-9 / 0691201919
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20191-7 / 9780691201917