Stesichorus
Stesichorus , fl. c.600 BC, Greek lyric poet. He lived at Himera and seems to have been originally named Tisias or Teisias. Legend says he invented the choral "heroic hymn" and added the epode to the Greek strophe and antistrophe, thenceforth much used (e.g., by the tragedians and by Pindar and Ibycus). Fragments of his verse have survived.
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Beginning with Two Lines by Stesichorus.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 12/1/2005; ; 341 words
; Beginning with Two Lines by Stesichorus Seventh Century BC With a fatally windswept shiver the high-Lobbed arrow split the distance between his eyes, Cleft right from...
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Stesichorus of Himera
Magazine article from: Parnassus : Poetry in Review; 1/1/1999; ; 295 words
; They say he lost his sight When he slandered Helen, Calling Paris a schoolboy In her faithless embrace. Seated on the wall of Troy With King Priam & his cronies, She wore cloth so thin the dead Could decipher faults & ruins, Naming each hero's downfall. The poet revised his story Till she
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Beginning with Two Lines by Stesichorus
Magazine article from: Poetry; 12/1/2005; ; 298 words
; Seventh Century BC With a fatally windswept shiver the high Lobbed arrow split the distance between his eyes, Cleft right from left and opened the princedom Of his mind to storming daylight; Whatever hidden thought had lived and sung, A little god, within the skull's Fern-darkness by one bolt of
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Frank Bidart, Lyric Poet
Magazine article from: Parnassus : Poetry in Review; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...seen, and until recently for good reason, as anything but a lyric poet. The early poems for which he is best known-"Herbert White...often violent originality, Frank Bidart has made himself a lyric poet. By "lyric," I mean both a certain kind of poem-short...
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Australia's lyric poet plays a public role.(Features)(Books)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 3/2/2000; 700+ words
; If Shelley was right when he wrote, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world," it may be apt that Judith Wright, one of Australia's most distinguished poets, now lives in her nation's capital, not too far from Parliament Hill. Once upon a time she almost had a political role - well,
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TASSOS LEIVADITIS, 66 LYRIC POET FROM GREECE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/31/1988; ; 292 words
; ATHENS - Tassos Leivaditis, one of Greece's leading poets, died yesterday of complications after intestinal surgery. He was 66. Mr. Leivaditis' first collection of poems, "Battle at the Edge of the Night," was published in 1952. The third and final volume of his collected works was issued last
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TAIWANESE DIRECTOR OF 'BOYS FROM FENGKUI' IS A SENSITIVE, LYRIC POET
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/19/1989; ; 534 words
; THE BOYS FROM FENGKUI -- Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan). Copley Place screenings today at 10:35 a.m. and 3:10 p.m.; Wednesday at 10:35 a.m. and 3 p.m. Hou Hsiao-hsien is the restless poet of the new Taiwanese cinema. I say this on the strength of having seen two of his films in reverse order:
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Review - Books: MP with a coy mistress Andrew Marvell, lyric poet and politician, remains a hard man to pin down, says Jonathan Bate
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray Little, Brown, pounds 20, 294 pp HALF A century ago an industrious scholar unearthed a document which listed the amount of black cloth allotted to each official mourner in the funeral procession of Oliver Cromwell. It included
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Poetic fellow traveller Anthony Daniels on the contradictory Pablo Neruda, lyric poet and unrepentant Stalinist
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life by Adam Feinstein Bloomsbury, pounds 25, 497 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 PABLO NERUDA was a great poet. His gift manifested itself very early in his life. He had an ability to see the marvellous in the ordinary and to transmute it into a few,
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AND FOR LATER . . . THE BEST TIME WITH YOUR FEET UP
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/12/2008; ; 298 words
; ...winged monster slain by Heracles as part of his tenth labour - based on fragments of material by Stesichorus, a sixth-century BC lyric poet, might seem an intimidating prospect for a Sunday afternoon. But this dazzling, defiant novel in...
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Stesichorus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Stesichorus , fl. c.600 BC, Greek lyric poet. He lived at Himera and seems to have been originally named Tisias or Teisias. Legend says...
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Hesiod
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and that he was murdered in Oenoe in Locris for having seduced a maiden; their child is said to have been the lyric poet Stesichorus. The poet relates that the only time he traveled across the sea was to compete in a poetry contest at the funeral games...
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Himera
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...traditional date) forces led by Gelon routed the Carthaginians led by Hamilcar. Years later the Carthaginians destroyed (409 BC) the city. The citizens moved to nearby Thermae (modern Termini). The poet Stesichorus was born in Himera.
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Helen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...forcibly abducted Helen; others that she fell in love with him and went willingly. In one peculiar account, originating in Stesichorus and used by Euripides, Helen was rescued by Proteus in Egypt, who substituted in her stead a phantom that sailed to Troy...
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ancient Greek literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...lyrics of Alcaeus , Sappho and Anacreon . The Dorian lyric for choral performance, developed with Alcman , Ibycus , and Stesichorus , achieved perfection in Pindar , Simonides of Ceos , and Bacchylides . The Classical Period Greek drama evolved from the...
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