A history of European versification / M.L. Gasparov ; translated by G.S. Smith and Marina Tarlinskaja ; edited by G.S. Smith with Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasparov, M. L. (Mikhail Leonovich)

Contributor:

Smith, Gerald Stanton.

Holford-Strevens, Leofranc.

Standardized Title:

Ocherk istorii evropeĭskogo stikha. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Poetics--History.

Poetics.

History.

European poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

European poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Summary:

Examining poetry written in 30 languages (from Irish to Belorussian) and over several millennia (from classical Latin and Greek to the experiments of the contemporary avant garde), this is the first detailed history of European versification. Gasparov shows how the poetry of English, French, Russian, Greek, and other European languages has developed from a single common Indo-European source. The book's account is liberally illustrated with verse examples, both in their original languages and in translation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-323) and indexes.

ISBN:

0198158793

OCLC:

33101798