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The myth of fire stolen from the gods appears in many pre-industrial societies. In Greek culture Prometheus the fire-stealer figures prominently in the poems of Hesiod, but in Prometheus Bound Hesiod's morality tale has been transformed into a drama of tragic tone and proportions. In the introductioContinue
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lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010
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Lowell and the Furies
Lowell called his reworkings of foreign poems imitations. As a purely descriptive term, appropriations would do equally well. Where Pound’s translations are selfless, so many attempts to find voices through which the dead could speak, Lowell’s are (a ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Hardcover 328 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0521248434
- ISBN-13: 9780521248433
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Pub date: Jun 30, 1983
- Also available as: Paperback
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| 9780521248433 | Hardcover | $64.95 | -- | The Book Depository |
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