Byron's Single Difference with Homer and Virgil: and other essays on the poet's interplay with the literatures of Greece and Rome

ISBN-13: 9781420829273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str.

Arthur D. Kahn

Opis

With the near disappearance of the study of the Classics, students of literature as well as general readers lack the background to share the pleasure of Byron's contemporaries, steeped like him in the Classical literatures, in the con Byron underwent an intense drilling in Latin and Greek and in works of literature in both languages. Throughout his life he continued to study the Classical authors. In this book the author demonstrates how Byron repeatedly looked to Classical author The author reveals a level of artistry in Byron's works rarely explored and appreciated. In this book the author seeks to demonstrate an entire level of artistry in Byron's poetry and prose rarely recognized by students and readers in the twenty-first century.