Folk Poetry of Modern Greece

by Roderick Beaton

A wide-ranging study of popular poetry and song in the Greek language from the last years of the Byzantine Empire to the present day. The folk poetry of the title includes the songs, composed and handed down by word of mouth, of unlettered villagers, of wandering minstrels with pretensions to professionalism, and, in more recent times, of the poorer inhabitants of Ottoman and Greek cities. The creative period of this folk poetry covers, at the minimum,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521604206
• ISBN13: 9780521604208
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"