” The Shield of Achilles “is apoem by Wystan Hugh Audenfirst published in1952and also the title of acollection of Auden’s poems, published in1955.The poem “The Shield of Achilles” is Auden’s response tothe detailed description (or ekphrasis) of the shield worn by thehero Achilles in...
without the help of an organisation, like a Hebrew prophet, a poet, or a solitary philosopher such as Spinoza, can no longer hope for the kind of importance which such men had in former days. This change applies to the scientist as well as to other men. The scientists of the past did...
The poet and the postwar city (W.H. Auden) 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 29 作者: C Pearsall 摘要: The article critiques the poetry produced by poet W. H. Auden after 1945. It particularly discusses the poems "The Shield of Achilles," "Sext," and "Memorial for the City." It...
A literary criticism is presented on the subject of ancient Greek epic poet Homer's description of movement and sound on the shield of the character Achilles. Topics discuss include commentaries on Homer's description by literary theorist Julius Caesar Scaliger and German writer, philosopher and ...
(Wystan Hugh Auden) (ôˈdən), 1907–73, Anglo-American poet, b. York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden ranks among the major literary figures of the 20th cent. Often written in everyday language, his poetry ranges in subject ...
The Iliadis purportedly written by the blind poet Homer some time during the eighth century BC. Its supreme importance in Greek literature slowly permeated to the rest of the Western world and in time to come, the two epic poems,The IliadandThe Odysseybecame the reference points for thousands...
The Greek poet Homer was born sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BC‚ possibly somewhere on the coast of Asia Minor. He is famous for the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey‚ which have had an enormous effect on Western culture‚ but very little is known about their ...
Hesiod was the second great Greek Epic poet. He wrote "Theogony" and "Works and Days" and is considered central to the history of ancient Greece.
PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS was a Roman poet who flourished in the late C1st A.D. during the reign of the Emperor Domitian. He was the author of a collection of dedicatory poems known as the Silvae, the epic Thebaid in twelve books, and the unfinished Achilleid. These last two works ...
Callimachus, Fragment 202 (from Tzetzes on Lycophron 54) (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) : "Leaving Rhegion (Rhegium) [in southern Italy], [one comes to] the city of Iokastos (Jocastus) son of Aiolos (Aeolus)." [N.B. Post-Homeric poets identified Aiolia (Aeolia) with ...