Classical Literature and its Reception: An Anthology - Softcover

 
9781405112949: Classical Literature and its Reception: An Anthology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1405112948 ISBN 13: 9781405112949
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.

  • Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
  • Divided into two halves – the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
  • Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.

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About the Author

Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English and Chair of the Department at Vassar College. His recent publications include Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997) and British Literature 1640–1789: An Anthology (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2001).

Robert D. Brown is Professor of Classics at Vassar College on the Sarah Miles Raynor Chair. He is the author of Lucretius on Love and Sex (1987) and articles on a range of Roman authors including Lucretius, Caesar, Virgil, Horace, Livy, and Ovid.

From the Back Cover

Many present-day readers of literature in English have little background knowledge of classical literature and therefore find it hard to appreciate the relationship between the two traditions. This anthology presents a selection of works from British, Irish, and Caribbean writers that illustrates the traffic between poetry in English and in Greek and Latin. It gives readers the background they need in order to really appreciate English-language poetry influenced by the classical tradition, and it provides those already familiar with classical works with reflections of Greek and Latin authors in English.

From the Inside Flap

Many present-day readers of literature in English have little background knowledge of classical literature and therefore find it hard to appreciate the relationship between the two traditions. This anthology presents a selection of works from British, Irish, and Caribbean writers that illustrates the traffic between poetry in English and in Greek and Latin. It gives readers the background they need in order to really appreciate English-language poetry influenced by the classical tradition, and it provides those already familiar with classical works with reflections of Greek and Latin authors in English.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1405112948
ISBN 13 
9781405112949
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
545
Editor
DeMaria Jr. Robert, Brown Robert D.

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