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Informationen zum Autor Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English and Chair of the Department at Vassar College. His recent publications include Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997) and British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2001). Robert D. Brown is Professor of Classics at Vassar College on the Sarah Miles Raynor Chair. He is the author of Lucretius on Love and Sex (1987) and articles on a range of Roman authors including Lucretius, Caesar, Virgil, Horace, Livy, and Ovid. Klappentext Many present-day readers of literature in English have little background knowledge of classical literature and therefore find it hard to appreciate the relationship between the two traditions. This anthology presents a selection of works from British, Irish, and Caribbean writers that illustrates the traffic between poetry in English and in Greek and Latin. It gives readers the background they need in order to really appreciate English-language poetry influenced by the classical tradition, and it provides those already familiar with classical works with reflections of Greek and Latin authors in English. Zusammenfassung This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature. * Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Introduction. A Note on the Texts. English Writers. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400). from The Wife of Bath's Prologue lines 627-822. Edmund Spenser (1552-99). from The Faerie Queene. Book 2, Canto 12. Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618). The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586). Astrophil and Stella 1-3, 47, 83. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593). The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Sonnets 55, 60, 74, 77. Thomas Campion (1567-1620). My Sweetest Lesbia. Ben Jonson (1572-1637). To Penshurst. Inviting a Friend to Supper. John Donne (1572-1631). The Sun Rising. Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed. Robert Herrick (1591-1674). To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. To His Muse. John Milton (1608-1674). Lycidas. from Paradise Lost. Book 1, lines 1-74. Book 4, lines 411-91. Richard Lovelace (1618-58). Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland. To His Coy Mistress. John Dryden (1631-1700). To the Memory of Mr. Oldham. Aphra Behn (1640?-1689). The Disappointment. The Golden Age. John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680). The Imperfect Enjoyment. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). A Description of a City Shower. Alexander Pope (1688-1744). from The RAPE of the LOCK. Canto I. Canto IV. James Thomson (1700-1748). Winter: A Poem (1726). Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). The Vanity of Human Wishes. Thomas Gray (1716-1771). An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat. Mary Leapor (1722-1746). An Essay on Woman. William Cowper (1731-1800). Epitaph on a Hare. William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Laodamia. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Kubla Khan. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Adonais. John Keats (1795-1821). Ode on a Grecian Urn. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). The Lotos-Eaters. Robert Browning (1812-1889). Pan and Luna. Matthew Arn...
