The idea of lyric : lyric modes in ancient and modern poetry / W.R. Johnson de Johnson, W. R. (Walter Ralph) - 1982

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 214 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Swans in crystal: the problem of modern lyric and its pronouns -- Praise and blame: Greek lyric: The fragments and the music ; Archilochus and Pound and Ethopoeia ; The rhetoric of Sappho ; The waning of song and its last renewal: Anacreon, Simonides, and Pindar ; The genius of Greek lyric -- On the absence of ancient lyric theory -- In the birdcage of the muses: ancient literary lyric: When the sea is remembered: Callimachus and Meleager ; The sparrow and nemesis: Catullus ; In the deserts of the heart: Horace -- The figure of Ariadne: some lyric mongrels and lyric monologue -- The amplitude of time: Whitman and modern choral. Subjects; Lyric poetry History and criticism. Classical poetry History and criticism.Lyric poetry Classical literature. Lyric poetry in Western European languages to ca 1960 Critical studies.