Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir

by Mary Barnard

An American poet and translator of classical Greek poetry describes her career and the poets and writers she came to know, including her mentor, Ezra Pound

349 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Mary Barnard was a prominent American poet, translator, and biographer with many books in her repertoire. She studied Greek at Reed College and began to translate at Ezra Pound's suggestion in the 1930s. Her Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir was published by the University of California Press in 1984. Two years later she received the Western States Book Award for her book-length poem, Time and the White Tigress. She also published prose fiction and a volume of essays on mythology as well as the original lyrics gathered in Collected Poems.