IN any survey of Greek poetry, epic, lyric, and dramatic, one may see how, in each successive phase, it was the voice of Greek life. The very word “literature” is fraught with associations ...
“In its origins, poetry was not only oral, it was musical. In Old English, there’s a break in the middle of a line of poetry in which someone strikes a harp. It’s true of the oldest Greek poems, too, ...
There, most new poetry still came well marinaded in Latin and Greek allusion: in that sense Victorian poetic classicism died hard. Yet on the Western Front it died all the same. In two volumes (one a ...