by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AN, ME, SY
Ancient Greek, Then Church Latin, Symposium, Scriptorium Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Readers of Greek poetry constituted an élite, as in the Middle Ages readers of Latin did.” ~ Michael...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AL, DE
Apollonian Loveliness in the Lands of Eos, Trailing Robes “He would delight his heart while gazing on Their men,” those ancients, the Ionians, This visitor to Delos. God-like brawn Made sons that later Macedonians Would urgently have coveted if they Had seen them...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | CL, PO, TR
Ars Poetica Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse “The word ‘classic’ itself . . . derives from the Latin word classicus which referred to recruits of the ‘first class’, the heavy infantry in the Roman army. The...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AN, CL
Ars Sonnetica Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AN, AT, BO, CA, CL, CO, CY, HE, IS, PI, SA
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unrecoverable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse “Athenaeus quotes more than ten thousand lines of verse in it, many not preserved or attested elsewhere.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets Ten...