“Fowler’s . . . own insights are apparent throughout, and they seem to distill the personal appreciation and understanding of a scholar who has devoted much of her career to both contemplating and e
An accomplished poet and classical scholar, Barbara Hughes Fowler brings Hellenistic poetry to life for the contemporary reader. Her selections engage us with the full range of Hellenistic poetic genr
With this anthology, Barbara Hughes Fowler presents the most comprehensive selection of Greek poetry of the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. ever published in English. F
This volume contains poems composed by Irish monks between 800 and 1200 CE. The poems, all anonymous, were mostly written about the mythical land of Tir na n'Og and other pagan subjects. Fowler's i
An anthology of 35 anonymous lyrics dated between 800 and 1200 and translated into English. The lyrics include monastic poems, from the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries, poems about Saint Columba, the oth
