Living Classics

Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-923373-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

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, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, 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. Living Classics asks why contemporary poets are returning to making versions of and allusions to Greek and Roman literature in their work, and interrogates the parallel interest of modern classical scholars in the contemporary reception of classical texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, S. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The Return of Classics

- Poets and Practice

- 1: Maureen Almond: Horace on Teesside

- 2: Josephine Balmer: Jumping Their Bones: Translating, Transgressing and Creating

- 3: Robert Crawford: Reconnecting with the Classics

- 4: Anna Jackson: Catullus in the Playground

- 5: Michael Longley: Lapsed Classicist

- Poets in the Theatre

- 6: Tony Harrison: Weeping for Hecuba

- 7: Seamus Heaney: Title Deeds - Translating a Classic

- Scholars on Poets

- 8: Maureen Alden: The Argippaei (Herodotus 4.23) in Belfast

- 9: Brian Arkins: Michael Longley Appropriates Latin Poetry

- 10: Oliver Taplin: The Homeric Convergences and Divergences of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley

- 11: Lorna Hardwick: Is 'the frail silken line' Worth More than 'a fart in a bearskin'? or, How Translation Practice Matters in Poetry and Drama

- 12: Anastasia Bakogianni: The figure of Electra in Sylvia Plath's poetry: A Case of Identification

- 13: Edith Hall: The Autobiography of the Western Subject: Carson's Geryon

- 14: Rowena Fowler: 'Purple Shining Lilies': Imagining the Aeneid in Contemporary Poetry

- 15: Emily Greenwood: Shades of Rome in the Poetry of Derek Walcott

- 16: Isobel Hurst: 'We'll all be Penelopes then': Art and Domesticity in American Women's Poetry, 1958-96

- 17: Stephen Harrison: Catullus in New Zealand: Baxter and Stead

Über Autor(innen)

S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford.