{"product_id":"classical-literature-and-its-reception-9781405112949","title":"Classical Literature and its Reception","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eanthology\u003c\/i\u003e presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eGives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDivided into two halves  the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNotes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone seeking a single volume reader on the connections between English and classical literature need look no further. The editors have made a varied and representative choice of texts, which will provide students with a gateway to a tradition of extraordinary richness and fascination.\" \u003ci\u003eCharles Martindale, University of Bristol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An unusual and imaginative anthology. This refreshingly conceived volume makes vivid to English readers an important selection of both English and classical poets, and shows the deep relationships between them in a manner that bypasses the academic perspectives of 'influence studies.'\" \u003ci\u003eClaude Rawson, Yale University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“No matter where the reader chances to open the Anthology, he or she will be assisted in understanding and appreciating both the modern selections in the first half of the book and their classical sources in the second.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Laudable and respresentative anthology which does an effective job of showing … how English poetry is indebted to classical models … .New and interesting material.” \u003ci\u003eNotes and Queries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on the Texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnglish Writers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Wife of Bath’s Prologue lines 627-822.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdmund Spenser (1552-99).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Faerie Queene.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, Canto 12.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAstrophil and Stella 1-3, 47, 83.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnets 55, 60, 74, 77.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Campion (1567-1620).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy Sweetest Lesbia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBen Jonson (1572-1637).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Penshurst.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInviting a Friend to Supper.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Donne (1572-1631).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sun Rising.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Herrick (1591-1674).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo His Muse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Milton (1608-1674).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLycidas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Paradise Lost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 1-74.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 4, lines 411-91.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Lovelace (1618-58).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove Made in the First Age: To Chloris.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew Marvell (1621-1678).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo His Coy Mistress.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Dryden (1631-1700).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo the Memory of Mr. Oldham.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAphra Behn (1640?-1689).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Disappointment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Golden Age.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Imperfect Enjoyment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift (1667-1745).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Description of a City Shower.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Pope (1688-1744).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The RAPE of the LOCK.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCanto I.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCanto IV.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Thomson (1700-1748).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinter: A Poem (1726).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Johnson (1709-1784).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vanity of Human Wishes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Gray (1716-1771).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMary Leapor (1722-1746).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Essay on Woman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Cowper (1731-1800).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpitaph on a Hare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaodamia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKubla Khan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdonais.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Keats (1795-1821).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOde on a Grecian Urn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lotos-Eaters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Browning (1812-1889).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePan and Luna.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Arnold (1822-1888).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDover Beach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlfred Edward Housman (1859-1936).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Shropshire Lad XV.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Butler Yeats (1865-1939).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Thought from Propertius.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo Songs from a Play.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilfred Owen (1893-1918).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDulce et Decorum Est.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shield of Achilles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDerek Walcott (1930-).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Omeros.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, Chapter 1.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeamus Heaney (1939- ).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBann Valley Eclogue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Writers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomer (8th century BCE?).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Iliad.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 1-305.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 18, lines 478-608.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Odyssey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 1-10.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 5, lines 148-281.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 8, lines 266-366.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 9, lines 16-124.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 10, lines 198-347.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 12, lines 142-259.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHesiod (fl. c. 700 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Theogony.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003elines 1-80.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Works and Days.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003elines 53-201.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003elines 504-35.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSophocles (c. 496-406 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Antigone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003elines 582-602.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Trachiniae lines 112-38.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThucydides (c. 455-400 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom The Peloponnesian War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 7, 44.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato (c. 429-347 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Symposium.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003esections 209e-212a.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Ion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003esections 533a-535c.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsclepiades (fl. early 3rd c. BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Greek Anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 5, 85.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheocritus (fl. early 3rd c. BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdyll 1.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdyll 11.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBion (fl. late 2nd c. BCE?).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLament for Adonis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeleager (fl. 100 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Greek Anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 7, 207.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoschus, so-called (1st c. BCE?).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLament for Bion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLucretius (c. 94-55 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom On the Nature of Things.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, lines 646-60.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 3, lines 1-30.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 3, lines 894-911.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatullus (c. 84-54 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarmen 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarmen 3.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarmen 5.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarmen 8.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarmen 13.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarmen 101.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirgil (70-19 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEclogue 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEclogue 4.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEclogue 5.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEclogue 10.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Georgics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 299-423.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, lines 458-542.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 3, lines 384-93.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Aeneid.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 1-215.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, lines 1-56.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 4, lines 1-30.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 5, lines 315-39.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 6, lines 268-316.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 6, lines 679-751.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 6, lines 854-92.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 11, lines 759-831.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHorace (65-8 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Satires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, 6.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpode 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Odes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, 11.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, 37.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, 18.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 3, 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 3, 30.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 4, 7.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 4, 10.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Epistles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, 5.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTibullus (c. 50-19 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Elegies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, 3.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePropertius (c. 50-16 BCE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Elegies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, 15.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOvid (43 BCE- 17 CE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Amores.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, 1.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, 3.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, 5.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, 13.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, 6.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 3, 7.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeroides 13.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Art of Love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 269-344.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetamorphoses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 89-112.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 253-312.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 452-567.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 2, lines 760-832.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 3, lines 316-510.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 15, lines 143-258.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 15, lines 871-79.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePliny the Elder (c. 23-79 CE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Natural History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 16, 88.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLucan (39-65 CE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 114-57.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, lines 223-43.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartial (c. 40-104 CE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom the Epigrams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 1, 3.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 3, 58.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 5, 78.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 10, 48.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook 11, 52.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuvenal (fl. early 2nd c. CE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom Satire 6.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003elines 1-54.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003elines 434-507.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSatire 10.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCross-reference Tables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. English-Classical.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. Classical-English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Authors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. Classical.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII. Translators.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Titles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. English.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. Classical.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex to the Notes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407847629143,"sku":"9781405112949","price":42.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405112949.jpg?v=1730500727","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/classical-literature-and-its-reception-9781405112949","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}