1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000036876

Autore

Hephaestion <2. saec.>

Titolo

Hephaestionis Enchiridion cum commentariis veteribus / edidit Maximilian Consbruch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stutgardiae : in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1971

Titolo uniforme

Enchiridion de metris / Hephaestion

ISBN

3-519-01399-1

Edizione

[Editio stereotypa editionis anni 1906]

Descrizione fisica

XXXII, 430 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

Disciplina

486

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Accedunt variae metricorum Graecorum reliquiae



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454082603321

Autore

Aspiz Harold <1921->

Titolo

So long! [[electronic resource] ] : Walt Whitman's poetry of death / / Harold Aspiz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8173-8163-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

811/.3

Soggetti

Death in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-287) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: "Great Poems of Death"; 1. "Triumphal Drums for the Dead": "Song of Myself,"" 1855; 2. "Great Is Death": Leaves of Grass Poems, 1855; 3. "The Progress of Souls": Leaves of Grass, 1856; 4. "So Long!": Leaves of Grass, 1860; 5. "Come Sweet Death!": The Drum-Taps Poems, 1865-1866; 6. "Sweet, Peaceful, Welcome Death": Leaves of Grass, 1867-1892; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explores Whitman's intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife.Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But, as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define Whitman's career as thinker, poet, and person. Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly "Song of Myself," and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life--the cascade of sounds, sights, and smells that erupt in his verse--