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...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AN, HE, Ho, IM, PO
Aurora Actuality “We can confirm almost nothing about Homer and Hesiod, yet we have no problem, even when we should, believing in them.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 22 Who doubts that Homer, Hesiod, the old And oldest poets ever lived? Why should We? ...
by phillipw | Jul 3, 2020 | AN, OX, SA
Buried Fruit Egyptian desert places are the most Productive in our search for classic fruit. The ruins near the Memphis desert coast Were planted with a sowing absolute. There near the Serapeum was a pot Of books, their texts the earliest so far To come to us...
by phillipw | Jul 1, 2020 | AN, DE, DI, FU, PO
Centuries before Sappho Praised Men and Women Pre-echoes of that verse, ancient Greek In poetry, go back so far that lost Verbs, Indo-European ones, can almost squeak Through Sappho. It is like they are embossed Behind the papyrus and her inked lines Were...
by phillipw | Jul 1, 2020 | AN, PO
CM Classic Clarity cont Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Who’d want to read the ancient poets, myth And tales, because of facts? Aegean blue And empty temples, ancient grave sites with A...
by phillipw | Jun 30, 2020 | AN, CO, TR
Comedy or Tragedy: Someone Should Have Told Shakespeare Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse When comedy was talked about, the thought Of Plato and his mates was that the laugh Was different from the groan. A playwright ought To write...
