| The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation Contributor(s): Poole, Adrian (Editor), Maule, Jeremy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0192142097 ISBN-13: 9780192142092 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1995 Annotation: Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivalling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 881.008 |
| LCCN: 95008871 |
| Physical Information: 1.72" H x 6.32" W x 9.28" (2.40 lbs) 656 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivalling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another. |