Greek Lyric Poetry
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Excerpt from Greek Lyric Poetry: A Complete Collection of the Surviving Passages From the Greek Song-Writers Arranged With Prefatory Articles, Introductory Matter and Commentary Ample as are the remains of Greek poetic literature that have been preserved, there is one important branch of it which has all but perished. The student usually forms a close and valuable acquaintance with Greek Drama and Greek Epic, but of the Lyric poetry proper he reads little or nothing. It is true that the more fortunate, though I fear their number is small, read Pindar, the greatest perhaps of the Greek Lyric poets; and, furthermore, all of us become acquainted with choral lyric poetry in the Drama. Pindar, however, in his only surviving complete poems, the Epinician odes, represents one branch alone of the subject; and similarly in the Plays we have practically choral Lyric only, and that, too, under such conditions as are best adapted to the preponderating interest of the Drama. Of Greek Lyric Poetry then, with these important exceptions, we are profoundly ignorant; and our knowledge of Greek poetry in general is accordingly almost as limited, as if in our own language we read Milton and the Elizabethan Dramatists, but knew nothing, or almost nothing, of the great song-writers contemporary with them, or of the lyrics of Shelley, Keats, and Tennyson in our own century. The loss of these Greek song-writers is irreparable; but if we could imagine the connected works of any great modern poet, or series of poets, entirely lost, many valuable fragments might yet be recovered by a patient search for quotations from them in surviving literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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