Pindar's modernist debut: Reuben Brower, Robert Duncan, and the Pindaric Traditi

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication by the author. - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise very good and clean. - From the text: “'More bad poems have been written in the intention of rivalling Pindar than in any other sphere of classical imitation,” wrote Gilbert Highet in 1949.' He might have added “and will continue to be written.” The present article, at any rate, deals with a poem that appeared eleven years later, Robert Duncan’s A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar. It is not my intention, however, merely to add Duncan’s poem to the dismal roster of “Pindaric” failures stigmatized by Highet, nor even to exonerate Pindar himself of the blame for it.

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