Living classics
Subtitle: Greece and Rome in contemporary poetry in English
By: edited by S.J. Harrison.
Contributors: Harrison, S. J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199233731
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The return of classics / Stephen Harrison; title: Horace on Teesside / Maureen Almond; title: Jumping their bones: translating, transgressing and creating / Josephine Balmer; title: Reconnecting with the classics / Robert Crawford; title: Catullus in the playground / Anna Jackson; title: Lapsed classicist / Michael Longley; title: Weeping for Hecuba / Tony Harrison; title: Title deeds: translating a classic / Seamus Heaney; title: The Argippaei (Herodotus 4. 23) in Belfast / Maureen Alden; title: Michael Longley appropriates Latin poetry / Brian Arkins; title: The Homeric convergences and divergences of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley / Oliver Taplin; title: Is 'the frail silken line' worth more than 'a fart in a bearskin'? or, how translation practice matters in poetry and drama / Lorna Hardwick; title: The figure of Electra in Sylvia Plath's poetry: a case of identification / Anastasia Bakogianni; title: The autobiography of the western subject: Carson's Geryon / Edith Hall; title: 'Purple shining lilies': imagining the Aeneid in contemporary poetry / Rowena Fowler; title: Shades of Rome in the poetry of Derek Walcott / Emily Greenwood; title: 'We'll all be Penelopes then': art and domesticity in American women's poetry, 1958-1996 / Isobel Hurst; title: Catullus in New Zealand: Baxter and Stead / Stephen Harrison.