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Modernist Hellenism argues that engagement with Greek was central to the evolution of modernist poetics throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It shows that Eliot, Pound, and H.D. all turn to Greek literature, and increasingly Greek tragedy, as they attempt to grapple not only with their own evolving poetics but also with changing sociocultural circumstances at large. Revisiting major modernist works from the perspective of each poet's translations and adaptations from Greek, and drawing on archival materials, the book distinguishes Pound and H.D.'s work from Eliot's and argues for the existence of a specifically modernist hellenism (rather than, say, classicizing or idealizing, decadent or heretical), which is personal, politicized, and unconstrained by institutional standards, but also profoundly textual, language-based, and engaged with classical scholarship. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Sommario
Introduction: Towards a Modernist Hellenism; Part I. Hellenists and Modernists: From Image to Drama: 1. 'The some more vital equation': writing the image between Hellenism and Modernism; 2. 'The glory that was this and the grandeur that was the othe': Pound, Eliot, and Greek drama; Part II. 'I Don't Want to Write It': Measuring Greece between the Wars: 3. 'What is Greece if you draw back?': Translating Hellenism into Modernism; 4. 'Who fished the murex up': The Distillation of Ion; Part III. Tragedy and Translation in Late Modernism: 5. From Agamemnon to Herakles: Eliot's plays and the Four Quartets; 6. 'Now time to go back to an effort of 1912': Elektrifying English at St. Elizabeths; 7. 'From the dawn blaze to sunset': the languages of the image; Part IV. The Long Imagist Poem: 8. Pallinodes and Eidola: 'catching up to the past' in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt.
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KATERINA STERGIOPOULOU is an Assistant Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. Her work on the afterlives of Greek antiquity in twentieth-century writing has appeared in journals including Comparative Literature and October. She is co-editor of Brill's Companion to the Reception of Sappho (forthcoming 2024).
Riassunto
The first book to offer a detailed yet broad overview of the poetic engagement with Greece across the modernist period (1910s–1950s). Provides new readings of canonical and lesser-known works and presents unpublished archival materials. A resource for scholars of modern poetry, especially in its relation to translation and the classics.
