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Article: C.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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Fred Chappell continues to be a writer of great verwatility in both prose and verse. Although he has strong regional affiliations in North Carolina, some of his most interesting work draws on various traditions that are not typical of American literature. A case in point is his new book, C, a collection of one hundred epigrams. The epigram is one of the oldest forms of European poetry, probably the invention of Archilochus in the seventh century B.C. Werner Jaeger, a famous Hellenist of the last generation, said that the short poems of Archilochus were "born of the need of the free individual to see and solve the problem of human life outside the mystic content of epic ...
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... ... Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision of Fred Chappell. Ed. Patrick Bizzaro. Baton Rouge ... pandered I was born to be remaindered --Fred Chappell, "Epitaph for a Book of Poems" It ... there are few recent major prizes for Fred Chappell, and why no Pulitzer for George Garrett ...
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