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The Nature of Early Greek Lyric - Three Preliminary Studies (Paperback)
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The Nature of Early Greek Lyric - Three Preliminary Studies (Paperback)
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Three important literary questions in early Greek lyrics are
addressed in this study. First, Fowler attempts to determine the
extent that Homer and epic poetry generally influenced the lyric
poets, with respect to both the style of compositions and their
content. Identifying the certain examples of influence - which are
far fewer than often thought - he analyses the technique of
imitation, tracing a development from simpler to more complex as
the archaic period proceeds. Throughout this and the following
chapter, he often finds occasion to take issue with the famous and
influential view of the early Greek mind championed by Bruno Snell
and Hermann Frankel. In the second chapter Fowler studies the
organization of individual poems, identifying compositional
principles that may be used to solve literary and textual problems.
Some of these principles, like ring-composition, are old familiars;
others are not. All are found to be more pervasive than is often
realized, and reflect an attitude to composition rather different
from the disorderly and associative techniques traditionally
ascribed to the lyrics poets. The last chapter explores the nature
of genres in the archaic period, starting from the vexed question
of the definition of elegy. In all the genres associated with
particular occasions, the author finds that the poets' professional
skills and self-consciousness became more important than the purely
occasional aspects of their composition. Observations of interest
are made on, among others, citharodic songs, epigrams and epinician
odes; and elegy in the end turns out, paradoxically, not to be a
true genre at all.
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