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... poem the Odyssey , prob- ably composed in the eighth or seventh century BCE , but in Fitzgerald's twentieth - century translation , a story of adventure , trickery , and romance focused on a hero much seasoned in the ways of the world ...
... poem the Odyssey , prob- ably composed in the eighth or seventh century BCE , but in Fitzgerald's twentieth - century translation , a story of adventure , trickery , and romance focused on a hero much seasoned in the ways of the world ...
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... poem makes it an “easy read.” Why is it challenging? The predominant factor is that the poem describes a world for which we have no immediate cultural references. As Heaney points out, first-time readers of the Odyssey or the Iliad have ...
... poem makes it an “easy read.” Why is it challenging? The predominant factor is that the poem describes a world for which we have no immediate cultural references. As Heaney points out, first-time readers of the Odyssey or the Iliad have ...
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... poem ends with the heroic funeral of Beowulf, a king said to be the “kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.” The world of the poem contains, of course, much more than this action-movie-like synopsis. Descriptions of Anglo-Saxon ...
... poem ends with the heroic funeral of Beowulf, a king said to be the “kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.” The world of the poem contains, of course, much more than this action-movie-like synopsis. Descriptions of Anglo-Saxon ...
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... poetic beanpole knight on his nag Rocinante and his prosaic squat sidekick on his nameless donkey . What now ? It's a literary setup , a joke about genre . The aging don , crazed by excessive reading of books about chivalry , begins to ...
... poetic beanpole knight on his nag Rocinante and his prosaic squat sidekick on his nameless donkey . What now ? It's a literary setup , a joke about genre . The aging don , crazed by excessive reading of books about chivalry , begins to ...
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... poem is written in English , but English of a six hundred - year - old vintage . Your school days may have given you a brush with the opening , " Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / The droughte of Marche hath perced to the rote ...
... poem is written in English , but English of a six hundred - year - old vintage . Your school days may have given you a brush with the opening , " Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / The droughte of Marche hath perced to the rote ...
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The Good Life Young Men on a Quest | 49 |
Top Girls Strong Women Admirably So and Otherwise | 73 |
Jury Duty Crimes of Various Sorts | 97 |
Expand Your Horizons Books with Varied Venues | 121 |
Stranger in a Strange Land Unaccustomed Places Real and Fancied | 145 |
Lighten Up Smiles at the Human Condition | 169 |
Back in the Day Some Great EighteenthCentury Works | 193 |
Growing Up The Pains and the Pleasures | 217 |
War and Peace On the Battlefield and Back Home | 241 |
The Glittering Prizes Winners of Major Awards | 265 |
Index | 289 |
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