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Homeric Hymns
Peter Mcdonald
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Description for Homeric Hymns
Paperback. Exciting new translation of Ancient Greek text by award-winning poet, critic and university lecturer Translator(s): McDonald, Peter. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon, and Peter McDonald's new verse translations offer the major modern account of this still under-appreciated body of ancient poetry. The thirty-three 'hymns' are poetic accounts of ancient Greek gods, including Apollo, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Zeus, and Poseidon. Some of the poems are micro-epics in their own right, recounting the lives and affairs of the divine; taken together, they form a meditation on the primal themes of love, war, betrayal, desire, and paternity, and contemplate the dangerous proximity of gods and men. The book includes a new translation of the ... Read more
The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon, and Peter McDonald's new verse translations offer the major modern account of this still under-appreciated body of ancient poetry. The thirty-three 'hymns' are poetic accounts of ancient Greek gods, including Apollo, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Zeus, and Poseidon. Some of the poems are micro-epics in their own right, recounting the lives and affairs of the divine; taken together, they form a meditation on the primal themes of love, war, betrayal, desire, and paternity, and contemplate the dangerous proximity of gods and men. The book includes a new translation of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
462g
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784101763
SKU
V9781784101763
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About Peter Mcdonald
Peter McDonald was born and grew up in Belfast. He won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry and an Eric Gregory Award. A University teacher, he is currently Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ Church, Oxford. A prominent critic of modern and contemporary poetry, he has published a book on Louis MacNeice, a study ... Read more
Reviews for Homeric Hymns
Peter McDonald s unsettling imagination occupies a middle distance between domesticity and wilderness... [his] disenchanted vision makes the moments of intimacy and tenderness, when they come, all the more affecting. Michael Longley