by phillipw | Jun 15, 2020 | AN, DE
Apollonian Loveliness in the Lands of Eos, Trailing Robes “He would delight his heart while gazing at Their men,” those ancients, the Ionians, This visitor to Delos. They begat Their children later. Macedonians Would jealously desire them though if they Had seen...
by phillipw | Jun 15, 2020 | AR
Ars Poetica Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The word ‘classic’ itself . . . derives from the Latin word classicus which referred to recruits of the ‘first class’, the heavy infantry in...
by phillipw | Jun 14, 2020 | CL, NE, TR
Ars Sonnetica Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2020 | GE, RO, SY
Gentle Hermione Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Hermione is gentle and supreme, Is gentleness supreme herself. She spreads Her fragrance like ideals that, floating, stream Above blind Plato’s...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2020 | AN, AT, JO
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unrecoverable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Athenaeus quotes more than ten thousand lines of verse in it, many not preserved or attested elsewhere.” ~ Michael...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2020 | AN
Two Men from Two Small Places Save Poetry for the Universe: Athenaeus of Naucratis and C. D. Yonge of the Village of Eton Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem One thousand and six hundred later years...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2020 | AN, HE, Ho
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...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2020 | AN
Before the Internet in the Ancient World “Hellenistic culture was of necessity a culture of the book . . . : the age of the reader had arrived, and a poet was often a man speaking to a man, not to men.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 13 The audience grew smaller...
