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10 best books like Greek Lyrics (Richmond Lattimore): Idylls, Women of Trachis, The Odes, Selected Poems, Collected Ancient Greek Novels, Poems of the Late T'ang, Selected Poems, The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Odes of Horace, Helen in Egypt

Idylls
AuthorTheocritus
ISBN0192839845
A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of song and love are the foundational poems of the western...
Women of Trachis
AuthorSophocles
ISBN0195070097
Mutability; uncertainty; a universe of precipitous change: these themes are at the heart of Sophocles' tragic vision. But nowhere are they elaborated with more urgency than in Women of Trachis. There are no subtle shifts of Fortune's favors in this tragedy, only stunning and total reversals, a relentless...
The Odes
AuthorPindar
'What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' —C. M. Bowra

Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B.C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece—a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and...
Selected Poems
AuthorCarl Sandburg
ISBN0156003961
This new collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks' comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg's life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate...
Collected Ancient Greek Novels
AuthorBryan P. Reardon
ISBN0520043065
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure to which they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories...
Poems of the Late T'ang
AuthorA.C. Graham
ISBN1590172574
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable...
Selected Poems
AuthorHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN0140390642
 

Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.

For more than seventy years, Penguin...
The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
AuthorPaul Laurence Dunbar
ISBN0813914388
Major Field Prep: 22/133
This 1994 collected edition of Dunbar's poetry reprints the 1913 Completed Works and adds an addition 60 or so poems that were not included in that posthumous volume. Dunbar's poetry takes on a wide variety of styles, genres, and forms and the most distinct difference in...
The Odes of Horace
AuthorHorace
ISBN0374224250
The Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated and influential of the poets of Emperor Augustus's reign. These marvelously constructed poems, with their unswerving clarity of vision and extraordinary range of tone and emotion, have deeply affected the poetry of Shakespeare,...
Helen in Egypt
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0811205444
The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode,...
Euripides II: The Cyclops / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris / Helen
AuthorEuripides
ISBN0226307816
This volume contains the following tragedies by Euripides:

1. The Cyclops, translated and with an introduction by William Arrowsmith
2. Heracles, translated and with an introduction by William Arrowsmith
3. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Witter Bynner and with an introduction...
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library
AuthorKenneth Sylvan Guthrie
ISBN0933999518
As I said about the Presocratics and Stoics in other reviews, all the writings of the first Pythagoreans and of Pythagoras have disappeared and the fragments attributed to Pythagoras are contested. But, if not an exhaustive account of later Pythagorean writings and thought, this book is at least a...
The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0192839667
Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). The book features The Tale of Sinuhe, acclaimed as the masterpiece of Egyptian poetry, which tells...
The Norton Book of Classical Literature
AuthorBernard Knox
ISBN0393034267
Preface
Introduction
Greece
Homer
Hesiod
The archaic lyric & iambus
Archilochus (7th century B.C.)
Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)
Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)
Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)
Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.)...
Selected Poetry
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN0140424296
Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'), but he used and transformed a variety of verse...
Epigrams
AuthorMarcus Valerius Martialis
ISBN0375760423
Martial, the father of the epigram, was one of the brilliant provincial poets who made their literary mark on first-century Rome. His Epigrams can be affectionate or cruel, elegiac or playful; they target every element of Roman society, from slaves to schoolmasters to, above all, the aristocratic...
7 Greeks
AuthorGuy Davenport
ISBN0811212882
Here is a colorful variety of works by seven Greek poets and philosophers who lived from the eighth to the third centuries BC. Salvaged from shattered pottery vases and tattered scrolls of papyrus, everything decipherable from the remains of these ancient authors is assembled here. From early to later,...
War and the Iliad
AuthorSimone Weil
ISBN1590171454
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer’s art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.

Simone Weil’s The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works—an...
The Greek Alexander Romance
AuthorPseudo-Callisthenes
ISBN0140445609
Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy,...
Six Tragedies
AuthorSeneca
ISBN0192807064
Here is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers--the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain, oppressive, and violent times,...
Early Poems
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0486278085
One of the greatest poets of any century, the Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) drew upon Irish folklore and myth as inspiration for much of his early poetry. Mythic themes as well as many other topics are masterfully explored in this rich selection of 134 lyrics chiefly selected from...
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