{"product_id":"tony-harrison-9781350194588","title":"Tony Harrison","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public property in which communal problems are shared and crystallised, and that the poet has a responsibility to speak in a public voice about collective and political concerns. Enriched by Edith Hall's longstanding friendship with Harrison and involvement with his most recent drama, inspired by Euripides' \u003ci\u003eIphigenia in Tauris, \u003c\/i\u003eit also asserts that his greatest innovations in both form and style have been direct results of his intense engagements with individual works of ancient literature and his belief that the ancient Greek poetic imagination was inherently radical.Tony Harrison''s large body of work, for which he has won several major and international prizes, and which features on the UK National Curriculum, range\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Hall’s] shared interests and wide-ranging knowledge of the classical world and its reception, besides her sympathetic understanding of Harrison’s outlook, make this a most engaging study. * The Classical Review *\u003cbr\u003eHall’s book is ... engaging and erudite. * The Scottish Left Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTony Harrison\u003c\/i\u003e is a persuasive, timely, important study which goes right to the top of any reading list of Harrison scholarship and joins the canon of class-based classical reception studies. * Translation and Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Timeline of Tony Harrison’s Classics-Informed Works  1            ‘Models of eloquence’: Radical Classicism  2            ‘Stone bodies’: Statuary in \u003ci\u003eThe Loiners \u003c\/i\u003e(1970) and \u003ci\u003ePalladas \u003c\/i\u003e(1975)   3            ‘Frontiers of Appetite’: \u003ci\u003ePhaedra Britannica\u003c\/i\u003e (1975)  4            ‘Shaggermemnon’: Aeschylus’\u003ci\u003e Oresteia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eContinuous \u003c\/i\u003e(1981)  5            ‘All the versuses of life’: ‘\u003ci\u003ev.\u003c\/i\u003e’ and \u003ci\u003eMedea: A Sex-War Opera \u003c\/i\u003e(1985)  6            ‘Bookworm excreta’: \u003ci\u003eThe Trackers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof Oxyrhynchus\u003c\/i\u003e (1988) and Other Plays and Poems  7            ‘End to end in technicolour’: \u003ci\u003ePrometheus \u003c\/i\u003e(1998) and Other Films  8            ‘Witnessed horror’: \u003ci\u003eFram \u003c\/i\u003e(2008) and Harrison’s Euripides  9            ‘Surviving the slopes of Parnassus’: \u003ci\u003e‘\u003c\/i\u003ePolygons’ (2015) and Other Poems  Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019636146519,"sku":"9781350194588","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350194588.jpg?v=1750780862","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tony-harrison-9781350194588","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}