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Reviewed on April 1, 2020 | Arts & Humanities
Although little is known today except through fragments of his work, the Greek writer Callimachus (about 300 BCE) was considered a master poet and innovator who often reinvented the past by putting himself and his contemporary circumstances into poems (something frowned on at the time). Burt (Close Calls with Nonsense) reinvents Callimachus's poems through cuts, expanded metaphors, new metaphors, and the additio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More