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

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Other Authors: Harrison, S. J.
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Classical presences.
Subjects:
English poetry > 20th century > Classical influences.
American poetry > 20th century > Classical influences.
New Zealand poetry > 20th century > Classical influences.
Classical literature > Influence.
English poetry > English-speaking countries > 20th century.
Physical Description:xiv, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.