Full Description
This book has much of the modern sense of the individual being at a loss, but a partial answer comes from the inexhaustible freshness and splendor of the environment, a possession that can come back to us equally from some idea of Petra or Nineveh or from a roadside ditch by a mill." Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*THE TRADITION, pg. 3*CHILDHOOD OF A SCIENTIST, pg. 5*THE EXPLORER, pg. 7*THE BONE HUNTER, pg. 9*ARCHAEOLOGIST OBSERVING AN EXCAVATION, pg. 11*THE PAINTER, pg. 13*A MAN OF POOR ORIGINS, pg. 16*LAMENT OF A HUNTER, pg. 19*THE LIST, pg. 23*THE DIFFERENCE, pg. 24*NOON, AUGUST FIELDS, pg. 25*TO SET LOVE IN ORDER, pg. 26*ALIVE IN THE DAWN, pg. 27*DEAF PRESENCE, pg. 28*HAMMER STROKES, pg. 29*CIRCUS FOR THE DEAF, pg. 31*AGAIN, pg. 33*THE SIGNS, pg. 35*THE WIDOW QUEEN, pg. 37*THE WEDDING FEAST, pg. 40*THE BOY, pg. 45*GODS THOUGH DOOMED TO DIE, pg. 46*DAYS ALONG THE BANKS, pg. 48*ARE YOU AWAKE, CHILD, pg. 50*MEMORY, pg. 52*THE GRAIL, pg. 53*REFLECTION, pg. 54*DWARF WORLD, pg. 55*DERELICTS, pg. 56*THE WANDERERS, pg. 57*PUTTING UP FOR THE NIGHT, pg. 58*THE CHINESE WRITING ACADEMY, pg. 63*THEY STILL KEPT SCRIBBLING, pg. 65*STRAND, pg. 67*THE SECRET MAKER, pg. 69*THE AGE OF THE PROPHETS, pg. 70*WE DECIDED THIS WAS ALL, pg. 71*CIRCE, pg. 75*DON JUAN, pg. 77*PANDORA'S BOX, pg. 79*MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 4 ON THE RECORD PLAYER, pg. 81*OEDIPUS, pg. 83*STILL ANOTHER FAUST, pg. 85*ORPHEUS IN ONTARIO, pg. 87*XERXES CHASTISES OCEAN, pg. 89*AHASUERUS READS LUCRETIUS, pg. 91*THE ANTI-LUCRETIUS OF CARDINAL POLIGNAC, pg. 93*THE BOY CAESAR, pg. 95*KINGDOM AND EMPIRE, pg. 96*PETRA, pg. 97*AENEAS, pg. 101*THE HELMSMAN PALINURUS, pg. 104*THE LAND OF COLCHIS, pg. 105*TITHONUS, pg. 107*PROMETHEUS, pg. 109*JONAH TRIES TO REMEMBER, pg. 111*DANTE'S VERGIL, pg. 113*AFTER KONG, pg. 115*MEMNON, pg. 116*THE FOUR HUNDRED, pg. 117*TIRESIAS, pg. 123*THE SPHINX, pg. 127*LETTER FROM THE VERGE OF YIN PROVINCE, pg. 130*LUCRETIUS IN THE NEW WORLD, pg. 133
