By S. J. Harrison
This choice of essays explores the broad use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a number contemporary poetry written in English. It comprises either contributions from poets, who contain Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, speaking approximately their makes use of of classical literature of their personal paintings in lyric poetry and in theatre poetry, and essays from educational specialists at the comparable themes. residing Classics asks why modern poets are returning to creating models of and allusions to Greek and Roman literature of their paintings, and interrogates the parallel curiosity of recent classical students within the modern reception of classical texts.
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24 Sheila curses her former boyfriend, Dave too, by threatening to let everyone know which bits of him ‘don’t measure up’. In Epode 5 ‘Canidia tries a spell to get Varus to return, which fails. She then returns to her initial gruesome plot and the boy, realizing 21 23 24 22 Harrison (2001a) 176. Hills (2005) 37. Translation from West (1997) 8. See ‘Old Mary’s Fire’ in Almond (2004) 22. Horace on Teesside 31 that he is finished, issues a curse against the hags; he will haunt them as a ghost ’. 25 Kenny is not ‘finished’ as such, but sacrifice is implied by his reference to national service and he too promises to haunt the girls as a ghost.
From white horses . . Ah, I’m caught, I cried . . becoming the tortoise . . yard of the great court . . Even after tackling Sappho or Corinna’s one-word fragments, it seemed difficult to know how to make this into a poem, although scholarship on the work, as with all classical translation, provided invaluable pointers. ’(ibid. 154). Following a thread of references from article to article, I also learnt much from Marilyn Arthur’s further discussion of the tortoise imagery in the poem, 13 14 401.
Goes off and snuggles up with Germany and has the cheek to stand against us! We could all have been into Nazi tart by now; Adolf ’s Braun, instead of our brawn. We’d have ended up doing poncey exercises out in the fresh air. We’d not be sitting in here that’s for sure— drinking a pint of Newcastle. I tell you, if it hadn’t been for old Winnie we’d all be drinking vino, and tucking into spaghetti, and wearing black shirts, and kissing both cheeks; either that or sporting German jackboots. Rule Britannia—we’ll take anybody on eh?