Ephemera: Greek Prose Poems

by Mitchell Starrett Buck

Excerpt from Greek Prose Poems

In contrast to the simpler forms and Vistas of Syrinx, a new series has been drawn from the more complex, more voluptuous, life of olia and the Archipelago.

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80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1916

About the author

Mitchell Starrett Buck was an American poet, translator and classical scholar. His volumes of verse and prose poetry were deeply influenced by 1890s aestheticism as well as classical Greek and Roman Literature. His work Syrinx: Pastels of Hellas, which was published by his friend Donald Evans on his Claire Marie Press in 1914, was praised by H.L. Mencken who remarked that Syrinx contained "a series of Grecian rhapsodies in rhythmic prose, many of them of considerable beauty." Buck also published prose works and a biography of Casanova.