Poet, translator, essayist, and voracious reader--Kenneth Rexroth was an omnivore in the fields of literature. The brief, radiant essays of�Classics Revisited discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, "basic documents in the history of the imagination." Ranging from�The Epic of Gilgamesh�to�Huckleberry Finn, these pieces (each about five pages long) originally appeared in the�Saturday Review. Distinguished by Rexroth's plain, wide-awake style,�Classics Revisited�presents complex ideas in simple language, energized by the author's air of talking eye-to-eye with his reader. Elastic, at home in several languages, Rexroth is not bound by East or West; he leaps nimbly from Homer to The Mahabharata, from Lady Murasaki to Stendhal. It is only when we pause for breath that we notice his special affinities: for Casanova, lzaak Walton, Macbeth, Icelandic sagas, classical Japanese poetry. He has read everything. In Sterne, he sees traces of the Buddha; in Fielding, hints of Confucius. "Life may not be optimistic," Rexroth maintains in his introduction, "but it certainly is comic, and the greatest literature presents man wearing the two conventional masks; the grinning and the weeping faces that decorate theatre prosceniums. What is the face behind the mask? Just a human face--yours or mine. That is the irony of it all--the irony that distinguishes great literature--it is all so ordinary.".

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Titolo: Classics Revisited
Editore: New Directions Publishing Corporation, US
Data di pubblicazione: 1986
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN 10: 0811209881
ISBN 13: 9780811209885
Rilegatura: Paperback
Condizione: New
Peso: 254 grammi

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An introduction to the world's great literature is presented in sixty critical essays, each of which discusses the theme, summarizes the plot and explores the work's implications.

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Rexoth, Classics Revisited. Humourous and insightful essays on Classic literature.

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