"Text Shows Modern Poetry Began Much Earlier Than Believed"
"Whitmarsh believes the verse, with its lines of four syllables, with a strong accent on the first and a weaker on the third, could represent a 'missing link' between the lost world of ancient Mediterranean oral poetry and song, and the more modern forms that we know today. It is, he says, so far unparalleled in the classical world."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Dan Beachy-Quick's Stone-Garland
"Beachy-Quick introduces each poet, then 'sings another's song' through his translations, reifying each speaker's preoccupations, whether love or lust, revenge or financial ruin, aesthetic wonder or the transience of life. Throughout the book, we find all manner of fragments: poems torn in half, lines cut short mid-word, and other poems, according to Beachy-Quick, assembled from various incomplete texts, 'held together not by fact, but by resonance.'" |
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