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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
EcloguesGide - 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.