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Readership: Scholars and students of classics, literature, especially poetry in English, and of comparative literature.
Edited by S. J. Harrison, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford
"This is an interesting book, with a great sense of doors opening" - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Stephen Harrison: Introduction: The Return of Classics Poets and Practice 1: Maureen Almond: Horace on Teesside 2: Josephine Balmer: Jumping Their Bones: Translating, Transgressing and Creating 3: Robert Crawford: Reconnecting with the Classics 4: Anna Jackson: Catullus in the Playground 5: Michael Longley: Lapsed Classicist Poets in the Theatre 6: Tony Harrison: Weeping for Hecuba 7: Seamus Heaney: Title Deeds - Translating a Classic Scholars on Poets 8: Maureen Alden: The Argippaei (Herodotus 4.23) in Belfast 9: Brian Arkins: Michael Longley Appropriates Latin Poetry 10: Oliver Taplin: The Homeric Convergences and Divergences of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley 11: Lorna Hardwick: Is 'the frail silken line' Worth More than 'a fart in a bearskin'? or, How Translation Practice Matters in Poetry and Drama 12: Anastasia Bakogianni: The figure of Electra in Sylvia Plath's poetry: A Case of Identification 13: Edith Hall: The Autobiography of the Western Subject: Carson's Geryon 14: Rowena Fowler: 'Purple Shining Lilies' : Imagining the Aeneid in Contemporary Poetry 15: Emily Greenwood: Shades of Rome in the Poetry of Derek Walcott 16: Isobel Hurst: 'We'll all be Penelopes then': Art and Domesticity in American Women's Poetry, 1958-96 17: Stephen Harrison: Catullus in New Zealand: Baxter and Stead
