| The Poetics of Imitation: Anacreon and the Anacreontic Tradition Contributor(s): Rosenmeyer, Patricia A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521410444 ISBN-13: 9780521410441 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 884.01 |
| LCCN: 91010016 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.34 lbs) 298 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Western literature knows the anacreontic poems best in the translations or adaptations of such poets as Ronsard, Herrick and Goethe. This collection of poems, once assumed to be the work of Anacreon himself, was considered unworthy of serious attention after the poems were proved to be late Hellenistic and early Roman imitations by anonymous writers. This book, the first full-length treatment of the anacreontic corpus, explores the complex poetics of imitation that inspired anacreontic composition for so many centuries in antiquity. It discusses the sophisticated and allusive nature of the texts, and the curious relationship between model and imitators. A full translation of the anacreontic collection is included as an appendix and all Greek and Latin is translated. |