Since Helen was a goddess, as well as a mythical character, she retaliated, he claimed, by blinding him. (This, says Quintilian, is ''the fault of a well-stored mind.'') He also wrote a poem, now lost, that showed Helen of Troy inĪ shameful light.
Giving lyric poetry an epic grandeur, he failed to observe conventional lyric boundaries. Little of his poetry survives, but it was famous for being both sweet (a nightingale, it was said, sang on his lips in the cradle) and, according to the ancient rhetorician Quintilian, ''extravagant.'' Stesichorus was a Sicilian Greek from the early classical age. Over another, seen through the double lens of scholarship and verse. In lyric mode, the scholar and poet Anne Carson has created, from fragments of the Greek poet Stesichorus, a profound love story - a reverie on the mystery of one person's power Housman, is packing London's Royal National Theater and entrancing unscholarly audiences with Housman's scholarly lectures on the Roman poet PropertiusĪs well as Housman's own poems of unrequited love. Of Love,'' Tom Stoppard's play about the scholar and poet A.
Lassical scholarship, rebuilding ancient meaning from papyrus fragments and linguistic likelihood, is suddenly the new image for obsessive love. Anne Carson retells the story of Hercules' 10th labor in verse.
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