Agonistic Poetry: The Pindaric Mode in Pindar, Horace, H�lderlin, and the English Ode.

sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Pindar's name is often raised in discussions of the lyric, but there has been no full-scale study of his significance for the modem lyric. This book offers a new interpretation of Pindar and examines the different ways modem poets have engaged the distinctive problems and strategies that he evolved. It describes a species of lyric that challenges the common notions of this genre as subjective, asocial, and inward and develops a framework within which to speak of a modem "choral" lyric. -- Beginning with an interpretation of the Greek agon, or competition, and of how Pindar's lyric incorporates an "agonistic" conception of the human condition, Fitzgerald goes on to explore the various aspects of the problem of human action in the contexts defined by the agon. He uses comparative close readings of poems by Pindar and by modem poets, showing how modem poets have cast these same problems and how they have adopted comparable stategies for containing them. These comparisons define a related set of poetic concerns first crystallized by Pindar, concerns that have had a significant life in the western tradition and in modern poetry. ISBN 9780520057654