Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Harrison, S. J.

Description

xiv, 346 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Classical presences

Uniform Title

Classical presences.

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFD 09-3688

ISBN

• 9780199233731 (acid-free paper)
• 019923373X (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2009016664

OCLC

YBP 2009016664

Title

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

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Series

Classical presences

Classical presences.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Harrison, S. J.

Research Call Number

JFD 09-3688