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Chapter 1. Toward a Poetics of Amphoteroglōssia The very small children in patched clothing,Being smitten with an unusual wisdom,Stopped in their play as she passed themAnd cried out from their cobbles: Guarda! Ahi, guarda! ch’ è be’a [*]… Read more
Chapter 2. Rhetorical Modulations in the Komnenian Novel … You pick a fragmentOf grenade which pierced the body of a songOn Daphnis and Chloe. And you long,Ruefully, to have a talk with her,As if it were what life prepared you for.—How… Read more
Chapter 12. Aeschylus: Little Ugly One As we turn to the major Athenian dramatists, we find that three of the four fit into our pattern somewhat; Aeschylus suffers an adverse trial against his poetry and bitterly leaves Athens; Euripides is attacked by the Athenians and leaves Athens,… Read more
Chapter 13. Euripides: Sparagmos of an Iconoclast Euripides was closer than either of the other two major tragedians to a blame poet, so it is not surprising that his vita conforms to the exclusion pattern quite closely. [1] His plays had satirical… Read more
Chapter 14. Aristophanes: Satirist versus Politician Aristophanes and the other comic poets inherited, as part of their comic art, the iambic abuse of Archilochus and Hipponax. [1] Perhaps the hallmark of Old Comedy was political satire; it is not surprising therefore that… Read more
Chapter 15. Socrates: The New Aesop In many ways, the Platonic Socrates fits into the pattern of Aesop, the mythical blame poet who is moral, called by god, yet rejected by a corrupt society. Socrates, like Aesop, was seen as the best of men. Thus, in… Read more
Chapter 16. Victim of the Muses: Mythical Poets As has been shown previously, the lives of the poets are often composed of legendary and mythical elements, side by side with historical elements. We will now approach the problem from the other side, looking at selected mythical poets,… Read more
Chapter 17. Kissing the Leper: The Excluded Poet in Irish Myth In 1596, Edmund Spenser wrote, There is amongst the Irish a certaine kind of people, called Bardes, which are to them insteed of Poets, whose profession is to set foorth the praises or dispraises of… Read more
