The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern ImaginationThis book tells the story of 'Thalatta! Thalatta! (The sea! The sea!), the shout first uttered on a mountain in eastern Turkey by the army of 10,000 greek mercenaries whose adventures in what are now Turkey, Syria and Iraq were described by the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon, who also participated in the long march to the coast. This story has played a persistent part in the European and American cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. Rood tells its story, taking in literary masterpieces by writers such as Heine, Shelley and Joyce, books of travel and adventure set in the Middle East and elsewhere, articles in Victorian periodicals, popular romantic novels, newpaper editorials at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York. |
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The great popularity that Xenophon's shout acquired in the nineteenth century and continued to hold in the early decades of the twentieth century reflects a new feeling for the sea that developed in the Romantic era and was promoted by ...
The great popularity that Xenophon's shout acquired in the nineteenth century and continued to hold in the early decades of the twentieth century reflects a new feeling for the sea that developed in the Romantic era and was promoted by ...
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28 The most sustained use of Xenophon's shout as a romantic symbol in modern poetry is to be found in an intense and intriguing work Thalassa Thalassa by the Australian poet Javant Biarujia ( a name adopted from the private language he ...
28 The most sustained use of Xenophon's shout as a romantic symbol in modern poetry is to be found in an intense and intriguing work Thalassa Thalassa by the Australian poet Javant Biarujia ( a name adopted from the private language he ...
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Think of that poem which Mrs Baillie Reynolds placed at the front of her romantic novel ' Thalassa ! ' . She imagined the Greeks ' in hostile deserts los» , wandering across a ' barren plain ' , until one day , one moment found them ...
Think of that poem which Mrs Baillie Reynolds placed at the front of her romantic novel ' Thalassa ! ' . She imagined the Greeks ' in hostile deserts los» , wandering across a ' barren plain ' , until one day , one moment found them ...
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Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
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