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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 PoundThis 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 show more to Ireland and Scotland. It offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece andRome, 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 Englishversions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless re-animation of one great poetic tradition in and through another. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
- First words
- In 1685 the Poet Laureate confessed: 'For this last half of the year I have been troubled by the disease (as I may call it) of translation.'
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Your seduced Eyes, down you will fall
Ev'n while you look, and forfeit all.
--Henry Vaughn, 1678
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 881.008 — Literature & rhetoric Classical & modern Greek literatures Classical Greek poetry Different categories of Greek classical poetry Palatine Anthology
- LCC
- PA3622 .A2 .P66 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Greek literature Translations
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