10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DITHYRAMBIST»
Discover the use of
dithyrambist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dithyrambist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late ...
The parody emphasizes the loss of connection between the original image of the
“flight” of the inspired poet and Cinesias' all too literal obsession with wings,
suggesting that by overdeveloping an old image in a new way, the dithyrambist ...
2
Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy
music in Pherecrates' Mousikē,13 and constantly disparaged as an airy-fairy
dithyrambist,14 he seemed to have been something like the Euripides of the
dithyrambic genre: that is, popular, innovative, and so, an irresistible target for the
...
However, for the purpose of Hermesianax' catalogue of lovers, the dithyrambist
must be identified not with Odysseus but with Polyphemos. As we will see, this
identification is brought about by means of allusions both to the Kyklops and to
the ...
Annette Harder, Remco F. Regtuit, G. C. Wakker, 2006
Like the old dithyrambist he sang without plan, just as the imagination poured
forth its glowing images.3 At times intensity of feeling made articulate expression
almost impossible (" Weh ! Weh ! Innre Warme, Seelen- warme, Mittelpunkt !").
... fall upon the versification of the poet; but as it is, the stanzas of Mr. Walt
Whitman, the American dithyrambist, are not more wild and apparently lawless
than Pindar's. As for the plan of these “Epinicia,” it is for the most part simple and
uniform.
6
A history of Greece: from the earliest period to the close ...
Marsyas is represented by Telestes the
dithyrambist as a satyr, son of a nymph —
vvfi<paytvti xtipoKrlrirtp <pvpl Mapawf xAt'os (Telestes ap. Athens:, xiv. p. 617).
the Muses, is conquered, blinded, and stripped of his art, 40 Part II. HISTORY OF
...
7
A Book of Prefaces (Including Conrad, Dreiser and Huneker)
Allan Poe, I am fond of believing, earned as a critic a good deal of the excess of
praise that he gets as a romancer and a poet, and another over-estimated
American dithyrambist, Sidney Lanier, wrote the best textbook of prosody in
English;31 ...
8
To Nietzsche: Dionysus, I Love You! Ariadne
In the context of Nietzsche's drama Foucault becomes a dithyrambist and sings of
Nietzsche's open seas: "The madman's voyage is at once a rigorous division and
an absolute passage": Among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has ...
§1 Edgar Allan Poe, I am fond of believing, earned as a critic a good deal of the
excess of praise that he gets as a romancer and a poet, and another over-
estimated American dithyrambist, Sidney Lanier, wrote the best textbook of
prosody in ...
She refers first to the fast—and—loose switching back and forth of lyric modes by
the dithyrambist Cinesias, as he “composed ill—tuned bendings in his strophes . .
. so that you couldn't tell his lefi from his right,” and then Phrynes “bending and ...
