The Reception of Classical Literature
in Poetry in English since 1900
(Dr F. Budelmann, Prof. S.J. Harrison, Dr F. Macintosh)
MT Tuesday 2pm, Examination Schools
Week 1. Classical Reception Theory and Practice (Dr F. Macintosh and Naomi Setchell,
Archivist APGRD)
Week 2. Modernism and the Classics (Dr F. Macintosh)
Week 3. Reception of Homer (Prof. S.J. Harrison, Dr F. Macintosh)
Week 4. Reception of Virgil and Ovid (Prof. S.J. Harrison)
Week 5. Reception of Horace and Catullus (Prof. S.J. Harrison)
Week 6. Lyric and the Feminine Voice (Dr. F. Macintosh, Dr F. Budelmann)
Week 7. African Reception (Dr. F. Budelmann)
Week 8. Irish Reception (Dr F. Macintosh)
This paper is taught by this lecture course and some tutorials in the first half of HT.
Extended essay titles will be released on Monday of week 6 of HT 2012, and essays
(5000-6000 words) will be due in by Monday of week 10 (12 noon). As in the parallel
English extended essay papers, candidates are NOT allowed to discuss the paper or an
essay with any tutor once the titles have been released. Topics will be broadly set to
be answered with reference to at least THREE authors, one of which must be a
classical author.
Tutorials in HT will run in the first half of term only, and might be single or paired,
depending on choices and tutor availability; there will be no more than three for each
student. These will enable students to prepare the area they want to write on by doing
some preparatory shorter essays or other work (e.g. notes or discussion). You will be
circulated later in the term to gather information about what you want to do, in order
to assign you to the best fit of tutor for HT. It is vital that you use the lectures and the
bibliography (attached), especially in the second half of MT, to fix on an area of study
as soon as you can. This might be genre-based (e.g. Greek tragedy), or author-based
either in English (e.g. Hughes and Heaney as makers of classical versions) or in
Latin/Greek (e.g. versions of Ovid), or topic-based (e.g. translation, war, colonialism,
gender as themes from classical literature in modern poets), remembering always the
need to include at least three authors at least one of whom must be classical.
Any problems, contact: fiona.macintosh@classics.ox.ac.uk
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Bibliography
This list is not complete or exhaustive, but merely some indication of the great variety of material
available. If you find something you think should be on it, please e-mail
fiona.macintosh@classics.ox.ac.uk
1 : PRIMARY TEXTS
A : Poetry in English with significant classical
connections
(i) before 1970
Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems (‘Sapphic Fragment’, ‘Thoughts from Sophocles’ ‘ Catullus : XXXI’
)
First World War Poetry : Wilfred Owen, ‘Strange Meeting’ and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’; Isaac
Rosenberg, ‘August 1914’ and ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’; Patrick Shaw-Stewart, ‘Achilles in the
Trench’; Rupert Brooke, ‘Menelaus and Helen’ and ‘Other fragments’)
T.S.Eliot, Collected Poems and Plays
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1997)
Ezra Pound, Personae (includes ‘Homage To Sextus Propertius’)
Ezra Pound, The Cantos
Louis MacNeice, Collected Poems
W.B.Yeats, Collected Poems
Robert Frost, Collected Poems (‘Build Soil : A Political Pastoral’, ‘For John F.Kennedy : His
Inauguration’)
Robert Lowell, Collected Poems (‘Falling Asleep Over the Aeneid’, ‘The Killing of Lycaon’, ‘Spring’,
‘Nunc est bibendum : Cleopatra’s Death’)
W.H.Auden, Collected Poems ( ‘The Shield of Achilles’, ‘Secondary Epic’, ‘Out on the lawn I lie in
bed’).
Allen Tate, The Swimmers and Other Selected Poems (London, 1970)
Basil Bunting, Collected Poems (Oxford, 1968)
(ii) living and recent poets
Maureen Almond, Oyster Baby (Newcastle, 2002)
Eavan Boland, Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1995)
Anne Carson, Nox (2009)
Carol Ann Duffy, The World’s Wife (London, 2000)
Bernadine Evaristo, The Emperor’s Babe (London, 2001)
U.A.Fanthorpe, Selected Poems (Penguin, 1986)
Louise Glück, Vita Nova (Carcanet, 2000)
Seamus Heaney, ‘Mycenae Lookout' in The Spirit Level (London, 1996).
Seamus Heaney Electric Light (London, 2001)
Seamus Heaney District and Circle (London, 2006)
Seamus Heaney Human Chain (London ,2010)
Ted Hughes, Collected Poems (London, 2003)
(‘Everyman’s Odyssey’ [Lupercal, 1960], ‘Song for a Phallus’,‘Truth Kills Everybody’ [Crow, 1972],
‘Actaeon’ [Earth-Numb, 1979], ‘The Hidden Orestes’ [Howls and Whispers, 1998])
Ted Hughes, Selected Translations (New York, 2006)
Michael Longley, Collected Poems (London, 2006)
Derek Mahon, ‘Lucretius on Clouds’, TLS 11.2.2005 (now in his Collected Poems, 2006)
James Merrill, Collected Poems (New York, 2001)
Peter Reading, Work In Regress (Bloodaxe, 1997)
Vikram Seth, Arion and The Dolphin [libretto] (London, 1994)
C.H.Sisson, In The Trojan Ditch (Carcanet, 1974)
C.H.Sisson, Anchises (Carcanet, 1976)
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C.H.Sisson, Collected Translations (Carcanet, 1996)
[Catullus, Martial, Virgil, Ovid, Horace]
Derek Walcott, Omeros (London, 1990)
B : Translations and versions of classical poetic texts
Homer
Derek Walcott, The Odyssey : A Stage Version (London, 1993)
Christopher Logue, War Music (London, 1981)
Christopher Logue, Kings (London, 1992)
Christopher Logue, The Husbands(London, 1994)
Christopher Logue, All Day Permanent Red (London, 2003)
G.Steiner and A.Dykman (eds.), Homer in English (Penguin, 1996)
Louise Glück, Meadowlands (Carcanet, 1996)
Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad [prose with verse sections] (Edinburgh, 2005)
{cf. also her Circe/Mud poems in Selected Poems, 1976)
Simon Armitage, Homer’s Odyssey (Faber, 2006)
Alice Oswald, Memorial (Faber 2011)
Stephen Mitchell, Homer’s Iliad (Simon and Schuster 2011)
Greek Lyric
Josephine Balmer, Sappho : Poems and Fragments (Bloodaxe, 1992)
P.Jay and C.Lewis (eds.), Sappho through English poetry (London, 1996)
Anne Carson, If Not, Winter : Fragments of Sappho (London, 2002)
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red : A Novel in Verse (London, 1999)
Lachlan Mackinnon, ‘Sappho to Her Pupils’, TLS 15.7.2005
Edwin Morgan, ‘Sappho and the Weight of Years’, TLS 15.7.2005
Greek Drama
Simon Armitage, Mister Heracles (London, 2000)
Ranjit Bolt, The Oedipus Plays (Bath, 1996)
Kamau Brathwaite, Odale's Choice (London, 1972)
Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats (Faber, 2004)
Anne Carson, ‘Two Translations of Aeschylus’ ‘Agamemnon’ 1072-1330, LRB 18.8.2005
Martin Crimp, Cruel and Tender : after Sophocles’ Trachiniai (London, 2004)
Desmond Egan, Euripides : Medea (Newbridge, 1991)
Desmond Egan, Sophocles : Philoctetes (Newbridge, 1998)
Tony Harrison, Medea : a sex-war opera (easiest found in Theatre Works 1973-1985, Penguin, 1985)
Tony Harrison, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (London, 1990)
Tony Harrison, Prometheus (London, 1998) [film script]
Tony Harrison, Plays : 4 [Oresteia, Common Chorus] (London, 2002)
Tony Harrison, Euripides : Hecuba (London, 2005)
Seamus Heaney, The Cure At Troy (London, 1991)
Seamus Heaney, The Burial At Thebes (London, 2004)
Seamus Heaney, ‘Testimony : The Ajax Incident’, TLS 26.11.2004
Ted Hughes, Aeschylus : The Oresteia (London, 1999)
Ted Hughes, Euripides : Alcestis (London, 1999)
Brendan Kennelly, Euripides’ Medea (Bloodaxe, 1992)
Brendan Kennelly, Euripides’ The Trojan Women (Bloodaxe, 1993)
Brendan Kennelly, Sophocles’ Antigone (Bloodaxe, 1996)
[these three now collected as When Then is Now : Three Greek Tragedies (Bloodaxe, 2006)]
Brendan Kennelly, Euripides’ Bacchae (Bloodaxe, 1997)
Liz Lochhead, Medea (London, 2000)
Liz Lochhead, Thebans (London, 2003)
Derek Mahon, Bacchae (Dublin, 1991)
Derek Mahon, Oedipus (Dublin, 2005)
Frank McGuinness, Sophocles : Electra (London, 1997)
Frank McGuinness, Euripides : Hecuba (London, 2005)
Blake Morrison, Oedipus and Antigone (Halifax, 2003)
Paul Muldoon (with Richard Martin), The Birds (Gallery Press, 1999)
Sean O'Brien, The Birds (London, 2002)
Tom Paulin, The Riot Act (London, 1985)
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Tom Paulin, Seize the Fire (London, 1990)
Ezra Pound, The Women of Trachis (London, 1953)
Ola Rotimi, The Gods are Not to Blame (Oxford, 1971)
Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides : A Communion Rite (London, 1973)
Colin Teevan, Iph (London 1999)
Colin Teevan, Bacchai (London, 2002)
Colin Teevan, Alcmaeon in Corinth (London, 2004)
Timberlake Wertenbaker, Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Kolonos, Antigone (The Thebans)
(London, 1992)
Greek Epigram
Peter Jay (ed.), The Greek Anthology and Other Ancient Epigrams (Penguin, 1973)
P.Whigham, The Poems of Meleager (Berkeley, 1975)
Tony Harrison, Palladas : The Poems (London, 1975)
Catullus
P.Whigham, The Poems of Catullus (Penguin, 1966)
James K.Baxter, Collected Poems (Oxford, 1979) 356-64
C.H.Sisson, Collected Translations (Carcanet, 1996)
Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours (New York, 2001)
Anne Carson , Nox (2009)
J.H.Gaisser (ed.), Catullus in English (Penguin, 2001)
Anna Jackson, Catullus for Children (Auckland, 2003)
Michael Hartnett, Translations (Gallery Press, 2003)
Josephine Balmer, Catullus : Poems of Love and Hate (Bloodaxe, 2004)
Josephine Balmer, Chasing Catullus : Poems, Translations and Transgressions (Bloodaxe, 2004)
Peter Green, The Poems of Catullus (California UP, 2005)
Horace
C.H.Sisson, Collected Translations (Carcanet, 1996)
D.S.Carne-Ross and K.Haynes (eds.), Horace in English (Penguin, 1996)
Ian Wedde, The Commonplace Odes (Auckland, 2001)
J.D.McClatchy, Horace : The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets (Princeton, 2002)
Maureen Almond, The Works (Newcastle, 2004)
Seamus Heaney, ‘Anything Can Happen’, in District and Circle (Faber, 2006)
Martial
Peter Porter, After Martial (Oxford, 1971)
Tony Harrison, U.S.Martial (Bloodaxe, 1981)
P.Whigham, Letter to Juvenal : 101 epigrams from Martial (London, 1985)
J.P.Sullivan and A.J.Boyle (eds.), Martial in English (Penguin, 1996)
Brendan Kennelly, Martial Art (Bloodaxe, 2003)
Ovid
Allen Mandelbaum, The Metamorphoses of Ovid (1993)
David Slavitt, The Metamorphoses of Ovid (1994)
M.Hoffmann and J.Lasdun (eds.), After Ovid : New Metamorphoses (London, 1997)
Ted Hughes, Tales From Ovid (London, 1998)
C.Martin (ed.), Ovid in English (Penguin, 1998)
David Raeburn, Ovid : Metamorphoses (Penguin, 2004)
Josephine Balmer, The Word for Sorrow (Salt, 2009) [Tristia]
Seneca
Ted Hughes, Seneca’s Oedipus (London, 1969)
F.Ahl, Seneca : Medea (Ithaca, NY, 1986)
David Slavitt, ed., Seneca : The Tragedies (2 vols. : Baltimore, 1992).
Caryl Churchill, Seneca : Thyestes (London, 1995)
Sarah Kane, Phaedra’s Love (London, 1996)
D.Share (ed.), Seneca in English (Penguin, 1998)
Ranjit Bolt, Seneca’s Hercules (London, 1999)
Virgil
Allen Mandelbaum, The Aeneid of Virgil (New York, 1972)
David Slavitt, Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil (New York, 1971)
C.Day Lewis, Virgil’s Aeneid (1952; World’s Classics, 1986)
Robert Wells, Virgil : The Georgics (Carcanet, 1982)
C.H.Sisson, Virgil : The Aeneid (Carcanet, 1986; repr. Everyman, 1998)
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Seamus Heaney, ‘The Golden Bough’ [Aeneid 6.98-148] in Seeing Things
(Faber, 1991)
K.W.Gransden (ed.), Virgil in English (Penguin, 1996)
Robert Wells, ‘The Thirteenth Book’, TLS 31.8.2001
Peter Fallon, The Georgics of Virgil (Gallery 2004)
Anthologies
A.Poole and J.Maule (eds), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
(Oxford, 1995)
Josephine Balmer, Classical Women Poets (Bloodaxe, 1996)
D.DeNicola (ed.), Orpheus and Company : Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (Hanover NH,
1999)
N.Kossman (ed.), Gods and Mortals : Modern Poems on Classical Myths (Oxford, 2001)
2 : SECONDARY LITERATURE
General
B.Arkins, Hellenising Ireland (Newbridge, 2005)
P.France (ed.), The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (Oxford, 2000)
B.Goff (ed.), Classics and Colonialism (London, 2005)
B.Goff and M.Simpson (eds.), Crossroads in the Black Aegean (Oxford, 2007)
L.Hardwick, Translating Words, Translating Cultures (London, 2000)
L.Hardwick, Reception Studies (Oxford, 2003)
L.Hardwick and C.Gillespie (eds.) Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds (Oxford, 2007)
L.Hardwick and C.A.Stray (eds.), A Companion to Classical Receptions (Oxford, 2008)
S.J.Harrison (ed.), Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (Oxford,
2009)
K.Haynes, English Literature and Ancient Languages (Oxford, 2003)
C.Kallendorf (ed.) A Companion to the Classical Tradition (Oxford, 2007)
A.Lianeri and V.Zajko (eds.), Translation and the Classic (Oxford, 2008)
C. Martindale, Redeeming the Text (Cambridge, 1993)
C Martindale and R Thomas (eds.), Classics and the Uses of Reception (Oxford, 2006)
T. Mathews and J. Parker (eds.), Tradition, Translation, Trauma: The Classic and the Modern (Oxford
2011)
M.Silk, 'The logic of the unexpected: semantic diversion in Sophocles, Yeats (and Virgil)',
in S. Goldhill and E. Hall eds. Sophocles and the Greek tragic tradition (Cambridge, 2009) 134-57.
O.Taplin, ‘Contemporary poetry and Classics’ in T.P.Wiseman (ed.), Classics in Progress (Oxford,
2002), 1-19
C.Tomlinson, Metamorphoses : Poetry and Translation (Carcanet, 2003)
Homer
E. Hall, The return of Ulysses: a cultural history of Homer's Odyssey (London, 2008).
R.Fowler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Homer (Cambridge, 2004), 311-376
B.Graziosi and E.Greenwood (eds.), Homer in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 2007)
Oliver Taplin, ‘The Homeric Convergences and Divergences of Seamus Heaney and Michael
Longley’, in S.J.Harrison (ed.), Living Classics (Oxford, 2009) 163-71
S.Underwood, English Translators of Homer (Plymouth, 1998) 55-68 [Logue]
E. Vandiver, Stand in the Trench,Achilles. Oxford 2010
Greek Lyric
E.Greene (ed.), Re-Reading Sappho : Reception and Transmission (Berkeley, 1996), 184-217
J.M.Snyder, Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho (New York, 1997), 123-60
M.Reynolds (ed.), The Sappho Companion (London, 2001)
M. Williamson, 'Sappho and Pindar in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries', in F. Budelmann ed. The
Cambridge companion to Greek lyric (Cambridge, 2009), Ch. 19.
See also on Eavan Boland below.
Greek Tragedy
F.Macintosh, Dying acts : death in ancient Greek and modern Irish tragic drama (Cork , 1994)
M.McDonald and J.M.Walton (eds.), Amid Our Troubles : Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy (London,
2002)
K.J.Wetmore, The Athenian Sun in an African Sky (Jefferson/London, 2003)
M.McDonald, The Living Art of Greek Tragedy (Bloomington, 2003)
Kathleen L.Komar, Reclaiming Klytemnestra (Urbana/Chicago, 2003)
E.Hall, F.Macintosh and A.Wrigley (eds.), Dionysus since 69 (Oxford, 2004)
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E.Hall and F.Macintosh, Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 (Oxford, 2005), 488-554.
F.Macintosh, P.Michelakis, E.Hall and O.Taplin (eds.), Agamemnon in Performance : 458 BC to AD
2004 (Oxford, 2005)
F. Macintosh, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus (Cambridge 2009)
John Dillon and S.E.Willmer, Rebel Women : Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today
(London, 2005)
Catullus
T.P.Wiseman, Catullus and His World (Cambridge, 1985), 218-32, 241-45
W.Fitzgerald, Catullan Provocations (Berkeley, 1995), 212-35
Theodore Ziolkowski, ‘Anglo-American Catullus since the Mid-Twentieth Century’,
IJCT 13.3 (2007) 409-30.
Pieces by Anna Jackson and Stephen Harrison in S.J.Harrison (ed.) Living Classics (Oxford, 2009)
Horace
Joseph Brodsky, ‘Letter to Horace’ in On Grief and Reason (New York, 1995)
C.Martindale and D.Hopkins (eds.), Horace Made New (Cambridge, 1993), 217-67
J.Talbot, ‘Twenty-first century Horace and the end of a shared culture’, Arion 11.2 (2003) 149-92
Theodore Ziolkowski, ‘Uses and Abuses of Horace : His Reception since 1935 in Germany and AngloAmerica’, IJCT 12.2 (2005) 183-215
Ovid
John Kerrigan, ‘Ulster Ovids’, in Neil Corcoran, ed., The Chosen Ground: Essays on the
Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland (Bridgend, 1992), 237–69, 237-69.
Sarah Annes Brown, The Metamorphosis of Ovid : From Chaucer to Ted Hughes (1999), 181-227
John Henderson, ‘Ch-ch-ch-changes’ in Philip Hardie et al., eds., Ovidian Transformations : Essays on
Ovid’s Metamorphoses and its Reception (1999), 301-323.
Raphael Lyne, ‘Ovid in English Translation’, in Philip Hardie (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Ovid
(2002) 249-63
Duncan Kennedy, ‘Recent Receptions of Ovid’ in Hardie (2002) 320-35.
S.J.Harrison, ‘Bimillenary Ovid : some recent versions of the Metamorphoses’, Translation and
Literature 13 (2004) 251-67
Theodore Ziolkowksi, Ovid and the Moderns (Ithaca, N.Y., 2005)
Seneca
S.J.Harrison, ‘Modern Versions of Senecan Tragedy’, Trends in Classics 1 (2009) 148-70
Virgil
Fiona Cox, Sibylline Sisters: Virgil’s Presence in Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford 2011)
Theodore Ziolkowksi, Virgil and the Moderns (Princeton, 1993)
S.J.Harrison, ‘Virgilian Contexts’ in A Companion to Classical Receptions, ed. L.Hardwick and
C.Stray (Oxford, 2008) 113-26
W.H.Auden
John Fuller, W.H.Auden : A Commentary (Princeton, 1998)
Eavan Boland
K.Lord, ‘Mythmaking and the Construction of the Feminine in Sappho and Eavan Boland’ in R.B.Egan
and M.A.Joyal (eds.), Daimonopylai (Winnipeg, 2004).
T.S.Eliot
K.J.Reckford, ‘Heracles and Mr Eliot’, Comparative Literature 16 (1964) 1-18
W.Arrowsmith, ‘Eliot and Euripides’, Arion 4 (1965) 4-20
R.G.Tanner, ‘The dramas of T. S. Eliot and their Greek models’, G&R 17 (1970) 123-134.
A.R.Hands, Sources for the Poetry of T.S.Eliot (Oxford, 1993)
Theodore Ziolkowksi, Virgil and the Moderns (Princeton, 1993), 119-28
Robert Frost
M.C.J.Putnam. ‘The Future of Catullus’, TAPA 113 (1983) 243-62
J.Talbot, ‘Frost’s Hendecasyllabics and Roman Rebuttals’, IJCT 10 (2003) 734-84
Thomas Hardy
Jeremy Steele, article ‘classics’ in N.Page (ed.), Oxford Reader’s Companion to Thomas Hardy
(Oxford, 2000) 53-9.
Tony Harrison
N.Astley (ed.), Bloodaxe Critical Anthologies 1 : Tony Harrison (Bloodaxe, 1991)
O.Taplin, ‘The Chorus of Mams’ in S.Byrne (ed.), Tony Harrison : Loiner (Oxford, 1997) 171-84.
Lorna Hardwick (ed.), Tony Harrison's poetry, drama and film: the classical
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dimension (Milton Keynes, 2000) [online at
http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/Colq99/colq99.htm]
Seamus Heaney
N.Corcoran, The Poetry of Seamus Heaney : A Critical Study (London, 1998)186-208.
O.Taplin, ‘Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney’s, and Some Other Recent Half-Rhymes’ in E.Hall,
F.Macintosh and A.Wrigley (eds.), Dionysus since 69 (Oxford, 2004) 145-68.
C.Finn, Past Poetic. Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney (London, 2004)
Lorna Hardwick, 'Classical Texts in Post-Colonial Literatures: Consolation, Redress and New
Beginnings in the Work of Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney’, IJCT 9 (2002) 236 -256
Lorna Hardwick, 'Murmurs in the Cathedral : the impact of translations from Greek poetry and drama
on modern work in English by Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney’, Year Book of English Studies,
2006
Seamus Heaney, ‘Title Deeds: Translating a Classic’ in S.J.Harrison, ed., Living Classics (2009) 12241
Ian Twiddy, ‘Seamus Heaney's Versions of Pastoral’ Essays in Criticism 56 (2005) 50-71
Ted Hughes
Valentine Cunningham ‘Having a Clue… about Ovid’, Symbolism 5 (2005) 101-24.
John Talbot,’ “I had set myself against Latin.” Ted Hughes and the Classics’, Arion 13.3 (2006), 13161
Michael Silk. 'Hughes, Plath, and Aeschylus: Allusion and Poetic Language', Arion, 14.3 (2007), 1-34
Roger Rees (ed.), Ted Hughes and the Classics (Oxford, 2009)
Michael Longley
Peter McDonald, ‘Lapsed Classics : Homer, Ovid and Michael Longley’s Poetry’ in
A.J. Peacock & K.Devine (eds.), The poetry of Michael Longley (Gerrards Cross, 2000), 35-50
Lorna Hardwick, 'Murmurs in the Cathedral' [see under Heaney above]
Essays by Longley himself, Alden and Arkins in S.J.Harrison, ed., Living Classics (2009)
Robert Lowell
J.Talbot, ‘”The Roman Frankness” : Robert Lowell and the Classics’, IJCT 13.2 (2007) 267-80
Edna Longley, Louis MacNeice : A Critical Study (London, 1988)
Peter McDonald, Louis MacNeice : The Poet in his Contexts (Oxford, 1991)
Peter McDonald, ‘ "With Eyes Turned Down on the Past": MacNeice's Classicism’, in K.Devine and
A.J. Peacock (eds.), Louis MacNeice and his Influence (Gerrards Cross, 1998).
Brian Arkins, ‘Athens no longer dies : Greek and Roman themes in MacNeice’, Classics Ireland 7
(2000) [14 pages]
Peacock, A.J., 1992. ‘Louis MacNeice: Transmitting Horace’, Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 5, 11930.
Ezra Pound
J.P.Sullivan, Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius : a study in creative
Translation (London, 1965)
D.M.Hooley, The classics in paraphrase : Ezra Pound and modern
translators of Latin poetry (Cranbury, NJ, 1988)
Niall Rudd, The Classical Tradition in Operation (Toronto, 1994) 117-50
P.Davidson, Ezra Pound and Roman Poetry (Amsterdam, 1995)
M. Comber, ‘A book made new : reading Propertius reading Pound : a study in reception’, JRS 88
(1998) 37-55
Allen Tate
L.Feder, ‘Allen Tate's Use of Classical Literature’, The Centennial Review 4 (winter 1960) 89-114.
S.Ford Wiltshire, ‘Vergil, Allen Tate, and the Analogy of Experience’ Classical and Modern Literature
5 (1985) 87-98.
Derek Walcott
O.Taplin, ‘Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Derek Walcott’s Homer’, Arion 3, 1.2 (1991) 213-26
Lorna Hardwick, 'Reception as Simile: The Poetics of Reversal in Homer and Derek Walcott' IJCT 3
(1996/7) 326 -338
G.Davis (ed.), The Poetics of Derek Waacott : Intertextual Perspectives [ special number of South
Atlantic Quarterly 96.2, Spring 1997]
R.D.Hamner, Epic of the Dispossessed : Derek Walcott’s Omeros (Columbia, Missouri 1997)
J.Farrell, ‘Walcott’s Omeros : The Classical Epic in a Postmodern World’, in M.Beissinger et al, eds.,
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World (Berkeley, 1999).270-96.
T.Hofmeister (ed.), From Homer to Homeros : Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Odyssey
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[special number of Classical World 93.1, Sept.-Oct 1999]
Lorna Hardwick, 'Classical Texts in Post-Colonial Literatures: Consolation, Redress and New
Beginnings in the Work of Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney’, IJCT 9 (2002) 236 -256
W.B.Yeats
David R.Clark & James B.McGuire, W.B.Yeats : The Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus
(Philadelphia/London, 1989)
B.Arkins, Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats (Gerrard’s Cross, 1990)
P.Th.M.G. Liebregts, Centaurs in the Twilight: W.B.Yeats's Use of the Classical Tradition
(Amsterdam/Atlanta, 1993)
F.Macintosh, Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (Cork, 1994)
F. Macintosh, ‘An Oedipus for Our Times? Yeats's Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos' in M.
Revermann and P. Wilson (edd.), Performance, Iconography, Reception (Oxford 2008), 524-547
First World War Poets
R.Jenkyns, The Victorians and Ancient Greece (Oxford, 1980), 338-42
Vandiver (2010) under ‘Homer’ above; Hardwick (2000) under ‘General’ above,
47-52; Hardwick (2003) under ‘General’ above.
E.Vandiver, ‘Classics in British Poetry of the First World War’ in Remaking The Classics, ed. C.Stray
(London, 2007), 37-56.
Some WWW resources
Oxford Archive for the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/
Open University project ‘The Reception of the Texts and Images of Ancient Greece in late twentiethcentury drama and poetry in English’ http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/
International Journal for Classical Tradition : http://www.bu.edu/ict/about/index.html
Arion journal : http://www.bu.edu/arion/
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