Reading poetry, writing genre : English poetry and literary criticism in dialogue with classical scholarship

Reading poetry, writing genre : English poetry and literary criticism in dialogue with classical scholarship / edited by Silvio Bär and Emily Hauser.

"This volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. 'Genre&#...

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Other Authors: Bär, Silvio (Editor), Hauser, Emily (Fiction writer) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Series:Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
Subjects:
English poetry > History and criticism.
English poetry > Classical influences.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Classical pieces: fragmenting genres in medieval England / Amanda J. Gerber
  • "Poetry is a speaking picture": framing a poetics of tragedy in late Elizabethan England / Emma Buckley
  • A revolutionary vergil: James Harrington, poetry, and political performance / Ariane Schwartz
  • The devouring maw: complexities of classical genre in Milton's Paradise Lost / Caroline Stark
  • Georgic as genre: the scholarly reception of vergil in mid-eighteenth-century Britain / Juan Christian Pellicer
  • Rhyme and reason: the homeric translations of Dryden, Pope, and Morris / Lilah Grace Canevaro
  • From epic to monologue: Tennyson and Homer / Isobel Hurst
  • The Elizabethan epyllion: from constructed classical genre to twentieth-century genre / Silvio Bär
  • "Homer undone": homeric scholarship and the invention of female epic / Emily Hauser
  • Generic "transgressions" and the personal voice / Fiona Cox.

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