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Cargando... The Infinite Moment: Poems from Ancient Greek (New Directions Paperbook)por Sam Hamill
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The Infinite Moment is a personal selection made by a poet known for his elegant translations from several languages, Chinese, Japanese, Estonian, Latin, and now ancient Greek. Drawing from the classic Lyra Graeca and The Greek Anthology, Sam Hamill has made new, American translations of poems in the thousand-year tradition that begins with Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anakreon in the 6th century C.E. The love poems, epigrams, and sly invective of over forty poets remind us once again of the deep wellspring of ancient Greece that nourished the roots of so many cultures.The Greek lyric poem was made to be performed with musical accompaniment, but like its modern descendent it seeks to articulate the experience of insight attained in the infinity of the moment. Says Hamill: "The fundamental experiences of humanity remain simultaneously universal and particular. The tears of Lymnos on the banks of the Akeron are the same tears Hitomaro shed a thousand years later on the shores of the Omi Sea." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)881.0108Literature Greek and other Classical languages Greek Classical poetry Different categories of Greek classical poetry Philosophy and Theory ArchaicClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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didn't see the bee.
Stung, he howled,
he screamed to Aphrodite,
"I'm dying! Mother! I'm dying!
I was bitten by
a snake with wings!"
And she kissed him and replied,
"It will pass. It was only a bee,
my darling, but think
how long the suffering
of all those who feel your sting."
The above poem by Anakreon, one of my favorites, is one included in this exceptionally beautiful collection of poems from Ancient Greece. The translator, Sam Hamill, has included poems from Sapphon, Alcaeus, Anakreon, and Paulus Silentiarius. In addition there is a selection of lyrical and love poems from several different sources ranging from Bacchykides and Likymnios to Meleager, Rufinus, and Marcus Argentarius. While the collection is small the poems invite the reader to delight in them again and again. ( )