Aesop's Fables Set in Verse

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables Set in Verse

Description

en_US H. Jerome Alter

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:58Z

en_US 2014-04

en_US 2011

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:58Z

Date Issued

en_US 2011

Abstract

en_US Here is a privately published, printed upon demand paperback book of some 153 pages after ten pages of introduction. Each fable gets a new page; a few run over onto a second page. As the back cover says, On a light note, H. Jerome Alter has couched a selection of Aesop's fables in verse. The titles are original and clever. Thus the first fable about an eagle wounded by an eagle feather is titled The Sharpest Irony (1). Alter's morals can get topical, as in this very fable, which describes the attack on Pearl Harbor and then points out that we in the USA had shipped the Japanese the steel to build the bombs to launch this war. I find the tellings of the fables lively here and engaging, though encumbered by the need to rhyme. That need creates some unusual word order. The Foolish Lion (5) is new to me. A hunter waits in a tree near the carcass of a stag partially eaten by a lion. When the latter returns, the former shoots him. Nor would a thief in confidence sublime,/Revisit the location of his crime. I want to consult more of these lively texts for oral presentation in future lectures. The clever titles make finding a specific fable difficult. I could not find a version here of GA, for example.

Identifier

en_US 9987 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76795

Publisher

en_US H. Jerome Alter

en_US NA

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5A48 2011 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole