Living classics : Greece and Rome in contemporary poetry in English / edited by S.J. Harrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, S. J., editor.

Series:

Classical presences.

Oxford scholarship online.

Classical presences

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century--Classical influences.

English poetry.

American poetry--20th century--Classical influences.

American poetry.

New Zealand poetry--20th century--Classical influences.

New Zealand poetry.

Classical literature--Influence.

Classical literature.

English poetry--English-speaking countries--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets talking about their uses of classical literature in their own work in lyric poetry and in theatre poetry, and essays from academic experts on the same topics.

Contents:

The return of classics / Stephen Harrison

Horace on Teesside / Maureen Almond

Jumping their bones : translating, transgressing and creating / Josephine Balmer

Reconnecting with the classics / Robert Crawford

Catullus in the playground / Anna Jackson

Lapsed classicist / Michael Longley

Weeping for Hecuba / Tony Harrison

Title deeds : translating a classic / Seamus Heaney

The Argippaei (Herodotus 4. 23) in Belfast / Maureen Alden

Michael Longley appropriates Latin poetry / Brian Arkins

The Homeric convergences and divergences of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley / Oliver Taplin

Is 'the frail silken line' worth more than 'a fart in a bearskin'? or, how translation practice matters in poetry and drama / Lorna Hardwick

The figure of Electra in Sylvia Plath's poetry : a case of identification / Anastasia Bakogianni

The autobiography of the western subject : Carson's Geryon / Edith Hall

'Purple shining lilies' : imagining the Aeneid in contemporary poetry / Rowena Fowler

Shades of Rome in the poetry of Derek Walcott / Emily Greenwood

'We'll all be Penelopes then' : art and domesticity in American women's poetry, 1958-1996 / Isobel Hurst

Catullus in New Zealand : Baxter and Stead / Stephen Harrison.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-344) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03677-2

9786612349089

0-19-157113-X

1-282-34908-2

OCLC:

489250673