The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation

by: Poole, A. Maule, J.

Price: 89,00 EURO

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The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
Edited by Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule
Oxford Books of Verse
A unique anthology of English poetry translated from the Classics
Translations by poets as diverse as Pope and Jonson, Ted Hughes and Tony Harrison

Description
The debts that English poetry owes to the Classics are massive and various. But they have been richly repaid by the astonishingly inventive tradition of translation to which some of the greatest poets in the English language have contributed, including Chaucer and Jonson, Dryden and Pope, Tennyson and Ezra Pound

This anthology presents the wealth of this living tradition as it has never been seen before, ranging from King Alfred to contemporary poets such as Ted Hughes, and from North America to Ireland and Scotland. It offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, and Euripides; Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, it runs from the epics of Homer to the late antique world where Greek and Latin writing both faced an emerging Christian culture, and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless re-animation of one great poetic tradition in and through another.

Greek: Epic, Homerica
Lyric and elegiac, archaic and classical
Drama
Hellenistic and later antique
Latin: The republic
Virgil, Horace, Ovid
Propertius to Hadrian
The later empire

Subjects:
Classical poetry
Classical poetry Collections
Classical poetry Translations into English
Littérature antique Traductions anglaises
Poetry
Poésie
Poésie antique Traductions anglaises
Translations
poetry

The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation

by: Poole, A. Maule, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780192142092 / 978-0-19-214209-2
• ISBN-03: 0192142097 / 0-19-214209-7
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995

Price: 89,00 EURO

1 copy in stock