The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation by Adrian Poole

The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation by Adrian Poole

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 the many contemporary poets here generously represented, 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, 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 face 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.

Adrian Poole is University Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Jeremy Maule is Newton Trust Assistant Lecturer in English, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9780192825285
ISBN 10	0192825283
Title	The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
Author	Adrian Poole
Series	Oxford Books Of Verse Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2000-03-16
Number of pages	656
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