Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English

by Stephen H. Harrison

This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, talking about their uses of classical literature in
their own work in lyric poetry and in theatre poetry, and essays from academic experts on the same topics. Living Classics asks why contemporary poets are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019923373X
• ISBN13: 9780199233731
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages