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Now reissued with a new introduction and an audio and visual record, this book should be of interest to those interested in the art and craft of oral literature.

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This seminal work...is now reissued, forty years after its first appearance, with a new introduction by Stephen Mitchell and Gregory Nagy and an accompanying CD-ROM...[the CD] itself...splendidly justifies the reprint...Here at last we can hear the quirky drone of the gusle and the sing-song chant of the poets themselves, as they intone The Song of Baghdad' or 'The Wedding of Smailagic Meho. The initial effect is disconcerting, but quickly becomes addictive.--Alan Griffiths Times Literary Supplement

This seminal work...is now reissued, forty years after its first appearance, with a new introduction by Stephen Mitchell and Gregory Nagy and an accompanying CD-ROM...[the CD] itself...splendidly justifies the reprint...Here at last we can hear the quirky drone of the gusle and the sing-song chant of the poets themselves, as they intone The Song of Baghdad' or 'The Wedding of Smailagic Meho. The initial effect is disconcerting, but quickly becomes addictive. -- Alan Griffiths Times Literary Supplement

This seminal work...is now reissued, forty years after its first appearance, with a new introduction by Stephen Mitchell and Gregory Nagy and an accompanying CD-ROM...[the CD] itself...splendidly justifies the reprint...Here at last we can hear the quirky drone of the gusle and the sing-song chant of the poets themselves, as they intone The Song of Baghdad' or 'The Wedding of Smailagic Meho. The initial effect is disconcerting, but quickly becomes addictive. -- Alan Griffiths Times Literary Supplement

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Gregory Nagy is Jones Professor of Classical Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University.

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