Background
Bagg, Robert Ely was born on September 21, 1935 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Theodore Ely and Elma Hague (White) Bagg.
(First edition, hardcover. Author's second book of verse. ...)
First edition, hardcover. Author's second book of verse. Blurbs by James Merrill, Richard Wilbur, Ralph J. Mills, Jr. Dust jacket rubbed with a short closed tear. viii , 54 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..
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(Robert Bagg's poetry has been praised for its narrative d...)
Robert Bagg's poetry has been praised for its narrative drive, grace, and sensuality, as well as for its irony. His new collection, Horsegod, adds powerful recent work to a selection from his earlier books and Greek translations. Horsegod follows Bagg through life-from the adventures of his youth to the enthusiasms and passions of his maturity. His poems explore traditional subjects such as the death of friends, war, politics, religion, and the drama of human relationships. Drawing on personal experiences, the imagery reverberates with appeals to the senses, as in "The Names of Perfumes": Water explodes from both taps, then a sound / I do not recognize at first, impacts / like rock crunching as it hits porcelain, / seven, eight shatterings. Then silence / tightens the skin of the door's huge bass drum. With a mastery of language utilizing a rich and extensive vocabulary, Horsegod registers the immediacy and ponders the lasting impact of Bagg's experience. His notes explain the references, allusions, and inspiration behind this engaging series of poems.
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(Robert Bagg's poetry has been praised for its power, grac...)
Robert Bagg's poetry has been praised for its power, grace, and sensuality, as well as for its humor and sly, knowing irony. In this, his latest collection, he offers some of the best of his earlier work as well as a selection of new poems. Bagg's forms include elegies, long narratives, lyrics, a sonnet sequence, and meditations on religious and philosophic themes. He writes of such contemporary pre occupations as nuclear war, terrorism, suicide, madness, divorce, and on such classical themes as the death of friends, difficult or lost love, eroticism, time, and memory―ancient topics that stir up primal longings and fears in all of us.
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(When Greeks gathered to watch Athenian tragedy they expec...)
When Greeks gathered to watch Athenian tragedy they expected nothing less than an 'essentially religious experience', in which every emotion would be rung from them and they would be left weeping and wailing. This book presents faithful translations of Sophocles' three Oedipus plays ( Oedipus the King , Oedipus at Kolonos and Antigone ) which made plain the vulnerability of every man to the will of the gods. Each play is introduced with a discussion of Sophocles' tragic themes and devices while the main introduction contrasts the content and style of the tragedies with the lucky life of their dramatist who lived until the age of 91. The notes for each play can be found at the end of the book.
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Bagg, Robert Ely was born on September 21, 1935 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Theodore Ely and Elma Hague (White) Bagg.
AB, Amherst College, 1957. Master of Arts, University Connecticut, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, University Connecticut, 1965.
Instructor English,, U. Washington, Seattle, 1963-1965;
assistant professor, then professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1965-1996;
department chairman English, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986-1992;
stage prodm. selection,, U Utah. Lecturer Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1967. Associate professor classics University Texas, Austin, 1971.
Visiting artist Rome American Academy Arts and Letters, 1980, 96. Consultant in field.
(When Greeks gathered to watch Athenian tragedy they expec...)
(Robert Bagg's poetry has been praised for its power, grac...)
(Robert Bagg's poetry has been praised for its narrative d...)
(Format Paperback Subject Literary Collections)
(Hardcover book with dust jacket)
(First edition, hardcover. Author's second book of verse. ...)
(Poetry.)
Member Modern Language Association.
Married Sarah Frances Robinson, August 24, 1957 (divorced 1996). Children: Theodore, Christopher, Jonathan, Melissa, Hazzard. Married Mary L. Bauman, July 27, 1996.