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Title Living classics [electronic resource] : Greece and Rome in contemporary poetry in English / edited by S.J. Harrison.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Description xiv, 346 p. : ill.
Series Classical presences
Classical presences.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Harrison, S. J.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780199233731 (acid-free paper)
019923373X (acid-free paper)

 
    
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