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The First Poets : Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets by Michael Schmidt is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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A dazzling literary exploration by acclaimed poet and critic Michael Schmidt, The First Poets brings to life the great Greek poets who gave our poetic tradition its first bearings and whose works have had an enduring influence on our literature and our imagination. <br><br>Starting with the legendary Orpheus and the possibly mythical Homer, Schmidt conjures a host of our literary forebears. From Hipponax, 'the dirty old man of poetry', to Theocritus, the father of pastoral; from Sappho, who thre
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- Author
- Michael Schmidt
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781784975975
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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