Title: Hellenism and the postcolonial imagination : Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott /
Authors: McKinsey, Martin.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. Criticism and interpretation.; Cavafy, Constantine, Criticism and interpretation.; Walcott, Derek Criticism and interpretation.; Commonwealth poetry (English) History and criticism.; Hellenism in literature.; English poetry History and criticism
Contents: Beyond Phraata: an introduction -- Ulysses Victorianus -- Homeric twilights -- Classicism and Anglo-Irish retrenchment -- The humbling of Ulysses: Cavafy and kenosis -- Looking for the barbarians -- In the metropole of language -- Chiasmus and the cantos -- "History was here" -- Black Greeks -- Correcting his name -- Missing sounds and mutable meanings -- Beyond empire and nation: an envoi -- Appendix A: "The end of Odysseus" (1894) -- Appendix B: Poems of Cavafy.