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  title info:
    title: Gods and mortals
    sub title: modern poems on classical myths
  name:
    name part: Kossman, Nina
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Poetry
  genre: poetry.
  genre: Poetry.
  genre: Poésie.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 295 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: For centuries, poets have looked into the mirror of classical myth to show us the many ways our emotional lives are still reflected in the ancient stories of heroism, hubris, transformation, and loss that myths so eloquently tell. Now, in Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths, we have the first anthology to gather the great 20th century myth-inspired poems from around the world. "Perhaps it is because the myths echo the structure of our unconscious that every new generation of poets finds them a source of inspiration and self-recognition," says Nina Kossman in her introduction to this marvelous collection. Indeed, from Valery, Yeats, Lawrence, Rilke, Akhmatova, and Auden writing in the first half of the century to such contemporary poets as Lucille Clifton, Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, Wislawa Szymborska, and Mark Strand, the material of Greek myth has elicited a poetry of remarkably high achievement. And by organizing the poems first into broad categories such as "Heroes," "Lovers," "Trespassers," and secondly around particular mythological figures such as Persephone, Orpheus, or Narcissus, readers are treated to a fascinating spectrum of poems on the same subject. For example, the section on Odysseus includes poems by Cavafy, W.S. Merwin, Gregory Corso, Gabriel Zaid, Louise Gluck, Wallace Stevens, and many others. Thus we are allowed to see the familiar Greek hero refracted through the eyes, and sharply varying stylistic approaches, of a wide range of poets from around the world. Here, then, is a collection of extraordinary poems that testifies to--and amply rewards--our ongoing fascination with classical myth. -- from dust jacket
  table of contents: Titans -- Zeus -- Demeter -- Apollo -- Aphrodite -- Other Olympians -- Lesser immortals and near-immortals -- The way to the underworld -- Lovers -- Transformations -- Trespassers -- The condemned -- Heroes -- Crete -- Thebes -- Troy -- After Troy -- The wanderings and the homecoming of Odysseus.
  note: edited by Nina Kossman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Mythology
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Mythologie
    genre: Poésie
  subject:
    topic: Mythology
  subject:
    topic: Antike
  subject:
    topic: Geschichte
  subject:
    topic: Götter
  subject:
    topic: Lyrik
  subject:
    topic: Mythos
  subject:
    topic: Rezeption
  subject:
    geographic: Griechenland
  subject:
    topic: Anthologie
  subject:
    topic: Mythologie
  subject:
    topic: Klassieke oudheid
  classification: PN6110.M8 G63 2001
  classification: 808.81/915
  classification: 808.81915
  classification: 17.75
  classification: EC 5410
  identifier: 0195133412
  identifier: 9780195133417
  identifier: 00021115
  identifier: D822 NBAM
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 000110
    record change date: 20240808153515.9
    record identifier: in00004815700
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng