David Ricks
Biographic Data
| ID | 1427250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ricks |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ricks |
| SIGNATURE | RICKS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9356-5040 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)
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The Sufi, the Idol, and the Icon
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Ο kalvos sta ichni tou ‘longinou’
Review of: Ο kalvos sta ichni tou ‘longinou’: Enas anthropos ton grammaton stin evropi tou 19ou aiona (‘Kalvos in the footsteps of “Longinus”: A man of letters in nineteenth-century Europe’), Angela Yioti (2019) Athens: Antipodes, 478 pp., ISBN 978-618-5267-05-6, p/bk, €18.00
The British Council and Anglo-Greek Literary Interactions, 1945–1955
‘This place is really the other end of the world’: ‘Am disappointed by the Greek intelligentsia whom I’d heard much of but perhaps we haven’t met the right cliques yet.’ 1 These comments in letters a few months into Louis MacNeice’s Athens secondment from the BBC to direct the British Institute in 1950 hardly breathe the Philhellenism which was such a feature of many - notably Rex Warner, or Kenneth Johnstone before that - who were part of that A…
The Making of Modern Greece
Homer in the Greek Civil War (1946–1949)
This chapter looks at the reception of Homer in the Greek Civil War of 1946-9 and its aftermath. It argues that this conflict prevented straightforward assimilations of Homeric poetry, and that although poets continued to use Homer, they were much more likely to treat themes such as fratricidal strife or betrayal, or to revisit characters who are failures in Homer. In order to focus its discussion of Homeric reception in Greek literary responses …
Grammata
On Looking into the First Paperback of Pope's Homer
Evripidis Garantoudis, Iraklion
(1997). Φoλυτρoφo αρμoνία. Meτρικη και φoιητικη τoυ Kαλβoυ. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 266-268
Tradition and the individual talent
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. (T.S. Eliot) Michalis Ganas is both a highly individual talent and, as I hope to show here with respect to an inevitably small selection of key poems, a highly traditional one. He is, moreover, …
Papadiamandis and Homer
Meaningful allusion to the classics in Papadiamandis's work is not a matter of the text's being stuffed with overt classical references. In his early novels we find a large number of, as it were, classical one-liners: essentially undigested – or at best opportunistic – allusions. The technique is a less focused form of Roidis's in Pope Joan; perhaps a closer comparison is Kalligas's Thanos Vlekas, which is replete with Homeric allusions and puns,…
Papadiamandis and Homer
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The Shade of Homer
In exploring the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern Greece - benign shade or looming shadow? - Dr Ricks is tackling a theme that has implications for the study of poetic influence in general. In this 1989 book, he takes the work of Sikelianos, Cavafy and Seferis and subjects a selection of poems to a careful scrutiny. These poems are not imitations of Homer but fresh engagements with Homeric themes, and comparison of the modern versio…
The pleasures of the chase
Thanks to the work of Stylianos Alexiou, the Escorial version of Digenes Akrites (hereafter ‘E’) has taken its rightful place as part of the heroic poetry of medieval Christendom. Even if the claim for E’s priority over the Grottaferrata version (G) does not meet with universal acceptance, E is at least in the field as an alternative. There are, perhaps, three main types of argument against the priority of G. The first is that the linguistic idio…
Cavafy the poet-historian
This article’s title is a sweeping one, but this is in fact a discussion of just two poems by Cavafy — and both of those on mythological subjects. The aim is, in a small way, to bridge the gap between myth and history in Cavafy’s poetry; the title hints that this is by way of a respectful response to D.N. Maronitis’ valuable survey, ‘C.P. Cavafy: a poet-reader’ (Maronitis 1983a). It is also, of course, an adaptation of the term which Cavafy is sa…
A measure of increased temporal perspective in successfully treated adolescent delinquent boys
A measure of increased temporal perspective in successfully treated adolescent delinquent boys
Cavafy the poet-historian
This article’s title is a sweeping one, but this is in fact a discussion of just two poems by Cavafy — and both of those on mythological subjects. The aim is, in a small way, to bridge the gap between myth and history in Cavafy’s poetry; the title hints that this is by way of a respectful response to D.N. Maronitis’ valuable survey, ‘C.P. Cavafy: a poet-reader’ (Maronitis 1983a). It is also, of course, an adaptation of the term which Cavafy is sa…
The pleasures of the chase
Thanks to the work of Stylianos Alexiou, the Escorial version of Digenes Akrites (hereafter ‘E’) has taken its rightful place as part of the heroic poetry of medieval Christendom. Even if the claim for E’s priority over the Grottaferrata version (G) does not meet with universal acceptance, E is at least in the field as an alternative. There are, perhaps, three main types of argument against the priority of G. The first is that the linguistic idio…
A measure of increased temporal perspective in successfully treated adolescent delinquent boys
Cavafy the poet-historian
This article’s title is a sweeping one, but this is in fact a discussion of just two poems by Cavafy — and both of those on mythological subjects. The aim is, in a small way, to bridge the gap between myth and history in Cavafy’s poetry; the title hints that this is by way of a respectful response to D.N. Maronitis’ valuable survey, ‘C.P. Cavafy: a poet-reader’ (Maronitis 1983a). It is also, of course, an adaptation of the term which Cavafy is sa…
The Shade of Homer
In exploring the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern Greece - benign shade or looming shadow? - Dr Ricks is tackling a theme that has implications for the study of poetic influence in general. In this 1989 book, he takes the work of Sikelianos, Cavafy and Seferis and subjects a selection of poems to a careful scrutiny. These poems are not imitations of Homer but fresh engagements with Homeric themes, and comparison of the modern versio…
The pleasures of the chase
Thanks to the work of Stylianos Alexiou, the Escorial version of Digenes Akrites (hereafter ‘E’) has taken its rightful place as part of the heroic poetry of medieval Christendom. Even if the claim for E’s priority over the Grottaferrata version (G) does not meet with universal acceptance, E is at least in the field as an alternative. There are, perhaps, three main types of argument against the priority of G. The first is that the linguistic idio…
Papadiamandis and Homer
Meaningful allusion to the classics in Papadiamandis's work is not a matter of the text's being stuffed with overt classical references. In his early novels we find a large number of, as it were, classical one-liners: essentially undigested – or at best opportunistic – allusions. The technique is a less focused form of Roidis's in Pope Joan; perhaps a closer comparison is Kalligas's Thanos Vlekas, which is replete with Homeric allusions and puns,…
Papadiamandis and Homer
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On Looking into the First Paperback of Pope's Homer
Evripidis Garantoudis, Iraklion
(1997). Φoλυτρoφo αρμoνία. Meτρικη και φoιητικη τoυ Kαλβoυ. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 266-268
Tradition and the individual talent
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. (T.S. Eliot) Michalis Ganas is both a highly individual talent and, as I hope to show here with respect to an inevitably small selection of key poems, a highly traditional one. He is, moreover, …
Grammata
Homer in the Greek Civil War (1946–1949)
This chapter looks at the reception of Homer in the Greek Civil War of 1946-9 and its aftermath. It argues that this conflict prevented straightforward assimilations of Homeric poetry, and that although poets continued to use Homer, they were much more likely to treat themes such as fratricidal strife or betrayal, or to revisit characters who are failures in Homer. In order to focus its discussion of Homeric reception in Greek literary responses …
The Making of Modern Greece
The British Council and Anglo-Greek Literary Interactions, 1945–1955
‘This place is really the other end of the world’: ‘Am disappointed by the Greek intelligentsia whom I’d heard much of but perhaps we haven’t met the right cliques yet.’ 1 These comments in letters a few months into Louis MacNeice’s Athens secondment from the BBC to direct the British Institute in 1950 hardly breathe the Philhellenism which was such a feature of many - notably Rex Warner, or Kenneth Johnstone before that - who were part of that A…
The Sufi, the Idol, and the Icon
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Ο kalvos sta ichni tou ‘longinou’
Review of: Ο kalvos sta ichni tou ‘longinou’: Enas anthropos ton grammaton stin evropi tou 19ou aiona (‘Kalvos in the footsteps of “Longinus”: A man of letters in nineteenth-century Europe’), Angela Yioti (2019) Athens: Antipodes, 478 pp., ISBN 978-618-5267-05-6, p/bk, €18.00
Peter Mackridge (1946–2022)
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