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Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiv, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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.

Other Authors:

Harrison, S. J. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91020338

Notes:

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.

Series:

Classical presences

ISBN:

019923373X
9780199233731

OCLC:

(OCoLC)319157215

LCCN:

2009016664

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)