Vandiver Elizabeth (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Whitman College)
Vandiver Elizabeth (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Whitman College) - Greek And Roman Antiquity In First World War Poetry Making Connections - Paperback
Vandiver Elizabeth (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Whitman College) - Greek And Roman Antiquity In First World War Poetry Making Connections - Paperback
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Description: Rupert Brooke Wilfred Owen Isaac Rosenberg and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social educational and cultural backgrounds but for all of the writers engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied at school whereas for Owen who struggled with Latin classical texts were a part of his aspirational literary imagination. Rosenberg's education was limited but he encountered some Greek and Roman literature through translations and through mediations in English literature. The various ways in which the poets engaged with classical literature are analysed in the commentaries which are designed to be accessible to classicists and to users from other subject areas. The extensive range of connections made by the poets and by subsequent readers is explained in the Introduction to the volume. The commentaries illuminate relationships between the poems and attitudes to the war at the time in the immediate post - war years and subsequently. They also probe how individual poems reveal various facets of the poetry of unease the poetry of survival and the poetics of war and ecology.
Title: Greek And Roman Antiquity In First World War Poetry Making Connections
Author(s): Vandiver Elizabeth (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Whitman College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198907886
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 9/24/2024
Series: Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries
Category: Classical History / Classical Civilisation
Description: Rupert Brooke Wilfred Owen Isaac Rosenberg and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social educational and cultural backgrounds but for all of the writers engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied at school whereas for Owen who struggled with Latin classical texts were a part of his aspirational literary imagination. Rosenberg's education was limited but he encountered some Greek and Roman literature through translations and through mediations in English literature. The various ways in which the poets engaged with classical literature are analysed in the commentaries which are designed to be accessible to classicists and to users from other subject areas. The extensive range of connections made by the poets and by subsequent readers is explained in the Introduction to the volume. The commentaries illuminate relationships between the poems and attitudes to the war at the time in the immediate post - war years and subsequently. They also probe how individual poems reveal various facets of the poetry of unease the poetry of survival and the poetics of war and ecology.
Title: Greek And Roman Antiquity In First World War Poetry Making Connections
Author(s): Vandiver Elizabeth (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Clement Biddle Penrose Professor Of Latin And Classics Emerita Whitman College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198907886
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 9/24/2024
Series: Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries
Category: Classical History / Classical Civilisation
