Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War

by Elizabeth Vandiver

Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Vandiver argues that classics was a crucial source for writers from a wide variety of backgrounds, from working-class poets to those educated in public schools, and for a wide variety of political positions and viewpoints. Poets used references to classics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199679320
• ISBN13: 9780199679324
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 476 Pages