Author: Homer Publisher: Wordsworth Editions ISBN: 9781840221176 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 982
Book Description
Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Author: Gerald Snare Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822309376 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
George Chapman (1559–1634) continues to cut a significant figure as a dramatist and translator of Homer, but his reputation as a poet has fared poorly. The common critical view has made him notorious as a writer of “difficult” poetry, to the point of being considered guilty of deliberate and wanton obscurity. Gerald Snare argues that the fact of the matter is quite the reverse: his supposed difficulty as well as the moral and philosophical imperatives that are assumed to dominate his work are in fact the construction of critics. The Mystification of George Chapman is an argument against the accepted view of Chapman's art. Snare examines Hero and Leander to determine the nature of its poetics and its relation to Mousaios and Marlowe; he reports on the imitative strategies of Ovid's Banquet of Sense and declares that it deserves a reputation quite different from that of the most difficult poem in the English language; and he refers to Chapman's own criticism found in the prefaces and notes often attached to his poems. The author finds Chapman's poems were responses to the critical pressures inherent in adapting Greek, Latin, and contemporaneous English authors to his art, and he disputes the modern critical tendency to assume that doctrine, and not poetic practice, was the primary source of poetic energy in the Renaissance.
Author: Millar MacLure Publisher: ISBN: 9781487577292 Category : Authors, English Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
George Campman (1559-1634) is one of the most important literary figures of the English Renaissance. This book is the first full-length critical study in English of all his works, poems, plays, and translations, considered in detail in relation to their genres, and in terms of Chapman's intellectual and aesthetic development.
Author: Homer
Author: George Chapman
Author: George Chapman
Author: Gerald Snare
Author: George Chapman
Author: George Chapman
Author: George Chapman
Author: Millar MacLure
Author: Helena Wojtczak
Author: George Chapman