After Callimachus: Poems

by Stephanie Burt

Book Overview

Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie Burt

Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Greeks and Romans, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691180199
• ISBN13: 9780691180199
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.6"