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147 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691036779
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 21 July 1999
Description
The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy....
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147 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691036779
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 21 July 1999
Description
The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy....