MR. SYMONDS’S volumes are are vision of two books, entitled respectively Studies of the Greek Poets and Studies of the Greek Poets (Second Series), published in London ; the first in 1873, and the ...

OF Mr. Mahaffy’s two volumes, 1 the first is devoted to the poets, and the second to the prose writers. In spite of the title which he has chosen, the author in his preface seems to disclaim any ...

The poet Jack Spicer famously compared the poet to a radio: when the writer is really listening in, he or she simply receives transmissions at a certain frequency. Ultimately, Spicer implies, there’s ...

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

It is useful to think of the literature of Ancient Greece in three phases. It begins with Homer and Hesiod, masters of the “epic” poem, and ends with the dramatists and the prose of the philosophers ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

Modern Greek poetry is strange to the Anglicised west, but the Classics, which include ancient Greek poetry, are at the very foundations of modern literatures in English. The Renaissance brought Greek ...

This list is intended to help you prepare for the MA Greek preliminary examination. That exam is a test of your competence in Greek and your familiarity with the field of Greek literature, rather than ...