Oregon Humanities Center

OHC director Leah Middlebrook with her new book "Amphion: Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity," a reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition.

In this wide-ranging study, Leah Middlebrook introduces readers to Amphion-inspired poetics and lyrics and traces the tradition of the Amphionic from the Renaissance through modernist and postmodern poetry and translation from the Hispanic, Anglophone, French, Italian, and ancient Roman worlds. Amphion makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the connection between poetry and politics and the history of the lyric, offering an account well-suited to our times.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo232007805.html