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Ted Hughes and the Classics
Edited by Roger Rees
368 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-922971-0
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Hardback
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04 June 2009
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- Interdisciplinary - will appeal both to readers of modern poetry and to those interested in 20th century classical reception
- A comprehensive assessment of Ted Hughes as a reader and interpreter of classical literature
- A stimulating range of interpretations - from close literary criticism to anthropological, commercial, and biographical approaches
This collection of sixteen articles, written by leading specialists in Classical and English literature, is an important contribution to the critical assessment of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and controversial English poets of the late 20th century. The chapters are arranged broadly chronologically according to Hughes's publications, and deal with different aspects of his engagement with the culture and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, including translations, original works, classical thought, and ideologies in his drama and verse. Hughes is revealed as a leading figure in
literary reception of the Classics in 20th century poetry, a sharply intelligent and sensitive reader of some of the world's foundational texts.Readership: Scholars and students of classics (especially of classical reception); of English literature (especially 20th-century poetry).
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Edited by Roger Rees, Reader in the School of Classics, St Andrews University Contributors:
Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University
Janne Stigen Drangsholt, University of Bergen
David Gervais, University of Reading
Stuart Gillespie, University of Glasgow
Lorna Hardwick, The Open University
Jennifer Ingleheart, Durham University
Garrett A. Jacobsen, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Genevieve Liveley, University of Bristol
Hallie Marshall, University of British Columbia
Roger Rees, St Andrews University
Neil Roberts, University of
Sheffield
Keith Sagar, Nottingham University
Michael Silk, King's College London
John Talbot, Brigham Young University
Anne-Marie Tatham, University of Grenoble
Vanda Zajko, University of Bristol
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"for Hughes' fans this will be a useful, even a groundbreaking volume; for reception theorists there are some fascinating individual readings" - Simon Goldhill, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This book deserves a warm welcome, and should certainly be in all good libraries" - David Hopkins, Translation and Literature
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Keith Sagar: Ted Hughes and the Classics
Stuart Gillespie: Hughes's first translation
Lorna Hardwick: Can (modern) poets do classical drama? The case of Ted Hughes
John Talbot: Eliot's Seneca, Ted Hughes's Oedipus
Janne Stigen Drangsholt: Living myths
Vanda Zajko: Mutilated towards alignment?': Prometheus on his Crag and the 'Cambridge School' of anthropology
Neil Roberts: Hughes's myth: the Classics in Gaudete and Cave Birds
Roger Rees: Between monarchy and democracy: neo-classicism and the Laureate poetry of Ted Hughes
Garrett A. Jacobsen: 'A holiday in a rest home': Ted Hughes as vates in Tales from Ovid
Anne-Marie Tatham: Passion in extremis in Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid
Jennifer Ingleheart: The transformation of the Actaeon myth: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3 and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid
Genevieve Liveley: Birthday Letters from Pontus: Ted Hughes and the white noise of classical elegy
Michael Silk: Ted Hughes: allusion and poetic language
Hallie Marshall: The Hughes Version: commercial considerations and dramatic imagination
Sarah Annes Brown: Classics reanimated: Ted Hughes and reflexive translation
David Gervais: Beyond tragedy: Ted Hughes, Racine and Euripides
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