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Zusatztext [This book] aims 'to map the history and development of English poetry and the literary criticism connected to it as a story of genre discourse in dialogue with classical scholarship' (p. 1). For certain contributors ? questions of genre are of primary concern! while for others ? genre appears in the midst of broader studies in reception. This is a positive! in the sense that those looking for work on classical reception (and translation) in English literature will find as much here as the reader interested specifically in the history of genre. Informationen zum Autor Silvio Bär is Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo, Norway. Emily Hauser is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It (2025), How Women Became Poets (2023) and For the Most Beautiful (2016). She is co-editor of Reading Poetry, Writing Genre (2018).A collection of essays exploring the development of genre in English poetry from the Middle Ages to the present, and the literary criticism connected to it, as a dialogue with classical scholarship. Zusammenfassung This ground-breaking 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” has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism, which begins with Aristotle. In a similar vein, recent developments in genre studies have suggested that literary genres are not given or fixed entities, but subjective and unstable (as well as historically situated), and that the reception of genre by both writers and scholars feeds back into the way genre is articulated in specific literary works. Classical scholarship , literary criticism , and genre form a triangle of key concepts for the volume, approached in different ways and with different productive results by contributors from across the disciplines of Classics and English literature. Covering topics from the establishment of genre in the Middle Ages to the invention of female epic and the epyllion, and bringing together the works of English poets from Milton to Tennyson to Josephine Balmer, the essays collected hereargue that the reception and criticism of classical texts play a crucial part in generic formation in English poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Silvio Bär (University of Oslo) and Emily Hauser (Harvard University)1: Amanda J. Gerber (Eastern New Mexico University) - Classical Pieces: Fragmenting Genres in Medieval England 2: Emma Buckley (University of St. Andrews) - “Poetry is a Speaking Picture”: Framing a Poetics of Tragedy in Late Elizabethan England 3: Ariane Schwartz (Harvard University/I Tatti Renaissance Library) - A Revolutionary Vergil: James Harrington, Poetry, and Political Performance 4: Caroline Stark (Howard University, Washington) - The Devouring Maw: Complexities of Classical Genre in Milton’s Paradise Lost5: Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo) - Georgic as Genre: The Scholarly Reception of Vergil in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain 6: Lilah Grace Canevaro (University of Edinburgh) - Rhyme and Reason: The Homeric Translations of Dryden, Pope, and Morris 7: Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths, University of London) - From Epic to Monologue: Tennyson and Homer 8: Silvio Bär (University of Oslo) - The Elizabethan Epyllion: From Constructed Classical Genre to Twentieth-Century Genre Propre 9: Emily Hauser (Harvard University) - “Homer Undone”: Homeric Scholarship and the Invention of Female Epic 10: Fiona Cox (University of Exeter) - Generic “Transgre...
