From Homer's Iliad (Greek):
μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε,
πολλὰς δ᾽ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν
ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν
5οἰωνοῖσί τε...
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From Homer's Iliad (Greek):
μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾽ ἔθηκε,
πολλὰς δ᾽ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν
ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσιν
5οἰωνοῖσί τε...
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I’d say very likely if the opera is any good
The Greek choruses are sung, the epic poetry of Homer and the Old English bards was sung.
So there’s a conjunction between great music and great...
The Confidence Man
I think the Humbert-Quilly fight scene near the close of Lolita is dark comedy.
Good luck
I think Anna Karenina was conservative in its time for how it viewed adultery and extramarital sexual relations. Much of Tolstoy is morally and culturally conservative in some way or another
Check out Moby-Dick, Paradise Lost, The Scarlet Letter, James Joyce’s Dubliners
The collected works of William Butler Yeats
Cause I wanted some Yeats poetry.
My ten favorite American novels (there’s of course so much more than 10 masterpices od American literature)
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter -...
Romantics: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, William Blake, John Keats, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth
Realism: Leo Tolstoy,...
I think War and Peace has that great structure to it. Then Blood Meridian, The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby.
Inventory ask heard Anna Karenina is beautifully structured
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Dostoevsky is the obvious counterpoint to Tolstoy.
Also check out Tolstoy’s Father Sergius and The forged Coupon (Parts 1 and 2)
Dostoevsky is the obvious counterpoint to Tolstoy.
Also check out Tolstoy’s Father Sergius and The forged Coupon (Parts 1 and 2)
Word!
I haven’t read Pope, but I love Fagles and Lattimore.
Caroline Alexander did a translation of The Iliad, which I find pretty swell and amazing.
For Elizabethan awesomeness, check out George...
It’s sad. A book is not always for every reader.
For me Blood Meridian, when I read it both times, felt a bit futile at times. Yet I would say that it was all worth it — worth it for the rich...
All art forms have their benefits.
Milton and Shakespeare show us what poetry can do (Shakespeare in the dramatic world, Milton with epic).
The lyric poets like Donne, Shelley, Keats, are...
Cool comparison. Though I love Troilus and Cressida as its own sophisticated, experimental, avant-garde, weird, opaque, baffling, anxious, and elitist play rivaled in its experimentalism only by the...
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
Young Goodman Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne
After the Ball - Leo Tolstoy
Things got quite interesting. Albeit it seemed to veer off from the Homer-Shakespeare question.
Do you prefer Homer and his two epics — The Iliad and The Odyssey — or Shakespeare?
For me, Shakespeare is the greater and broader writer - more depth to his characters, a kind of invention of the...
I wonder how Melville and his work fits into this scheme.
Dear readers:
Which of Homer's two epics do you prefer? The Iliad or The Odyssey?
My preference is with The Iliad, which many seem to prefer. Harold Bloom, Shelby Foote, Longinus, and others...