Ted Hughes and the classics / edited by Roger Rees.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rees, Roger.

Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.

Series:

Classical presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Controversial literature.

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998--Knowledge--Classical literature.

Hughes, Ted.

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 348 p. ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Ted Hughes & the classics

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Ted Hughes and the classics / Keith Sagar

2. Hughes's first translation: 'The Storm from Homer, Odyssey, Book V' / Stuart Gillespie

3. Can (modern) poets do classical drama? The case of Ted Hughes / Lorna Hardwick

4. Eliot's Seneca, Ted Hughes's Oedipus / John Talbot

5. Living myths / Janne Stigen Drangsholt

6. 'Mutilated towards alignment?': Prometheus on his Crag and the 'Cambridge School' of anthropology / Vanda Zajko

7. Hughes's myth: the classics in Gaudete and Cave Birds / Neil Roberts

8. Between monarchy and democracy: neo-classicism and the laureate poetry of Ted Hughes / Roger Rees

9. 'A holiday in a rest home': Ted Hughes as vates in Tales from Ovid / Garrett A. Jacobsen

10. Passion in extremis in Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid / Anne-Marie Tatham

11. The transformations of the Actaeon myth: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3 and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid / Jennifer Ingleheart

12. Birthday Letters from Pontus: Ted Hughes and the white noise of classical elegy / Genevieve Liveley

13. Ted Hughes: Allusion and Poetic language / Michael Silk

14. The Hughes Version: Commercial Considerations and Dramatic Imagination / Hallie Marshall

15. Classics reanimated: Ted Hughes and reflexive translation / Sarah Annes Brown

16. Beyond tragedy: Ted Hughes, Racine, and Euripides / David Gervais

Works by Ted Hughes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-342) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.

ISBN:

9780199229710 (hbk.)

0199229716 (hbk.)

OCLC:

286521852

Publisher Number:

99991422114