Roman Poets in Modern Guise - The Reception of Roman Poetry Since World War I

Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: The Roman Mode
PART I. AUGUSTAN ECHOES
1. Virgil's Eclogues
Gide - Valéry - Frost - MacNeice - Tate - Hecht - Longley - Heaney
2. Uses and Abuses of Horace
Owen - Brecht - Pound - Schroeder - Borchardt - Müller - Lange - Mickel - Krolow - Eich - Deppert - Meckel - Frost - Tate - Connolly - Durrell - Noyes -
Leishman - Michie - Bunting - Sisson - Auden - Lowell - Fagles - Wright - Pinsky - Elliott - Davie - Hecht - McClatchy - Hall - Brodsky - Bullard
PART II. REPUBLICAN COUNTERPOINTS
3. Lucretius: Poet or Scientist?
Marx - Einstein - Brecht - Mann - Handke - Grünbein - Schrott
4. Catullus: Poet or Lover?
Stevens - Baxter - Sisson - Ginsberg - McAfee - Budenz - Holland - Wilder - Hardy - Benton - Saylor - Dixon - DeMaria - Jaro - Dunmore - Grünbein - Schrott - Kling - Hartz
5. Propertius and the Outsiders
Pound - Benda - Vagni - Schrott
PART III. IMPERIAL DISSONANCES
6. Ovidian Waves
Pound - Joyce - Mandelstam - Eliot - Rilke - Horia - Fischer - Von Naso - Ebersbach - Lange - Malouf - Walcott - Calvino - Kristeva - Desiato - Mincu - Lewin - Ransmayr - Nooteboom - Norfolk - Tabucchi - Tawada - Zimmerman
7. Seneca: Poet or Philosopher?
Gressieker - Hiebel - Lowenstein - Grass - Hacks - Müller - Grünbein
8. Juvenal Delinquents from Lowell to Grünbein
Lowell - Auden - Ansen - Gilson - Grünbein
Conclusion: Why Roman Poets?
Index

About the author

Theodore Ziolkowski is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.

Summary

Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets.

Product details

• Authors: Theodore Ziolkowski, Theodore (Contributor) Ziolkowski
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781640140776
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-077-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Deutsch, Französisch, Amerika, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General