Classical Literature and its Reception: An Anthology - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1405112948 ISBN 13: 9781405112949

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dalla quarta di copertina

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1405112948
• ISBN 13: 9781405112949
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 545
• Redattore: DeMaria Jr. Robert, Brown Robert D.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Germania