Category: Poetry and the Classical Tradition

December 30, 2016

The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 1

Having published my “Apology for Poetry” in the last three posts, I shall herewith share selected chapters from Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, which appeared in 1927 and comprised his...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

December 16, 2016

An Apology for Poetry, Part 3

An Apology for Poetry: an Aristotelean View What follows is Part 3, the concluding part, of a commentary on my long poem, “The Young Poet’s Elegy to the Court of God,” in which several...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

November 17, 2016

An Apology for Poetry, Part 2

An Apology for Poetry: an Aristotelean View What follows is Part 2 of a commentary on my long poem, “The Young Poet’s Elegy to the Court of God,” in which several years ago I...

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

August 24, 2016

An Apology for Poetry, Part 1

Dear Reader, this inaugural post and the two that will immediately follow it (“An Apology for Poetry,” Parts 1-3) will serve to introduce the many posts that will follow them. I intend these first...