Stand in the Trench, Achilles
Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War
Series: Classical Presences;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 March 2013
- ISBN 9780199679324
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages476 pages
- Size 215x138x26 mm
- Weight 588 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Frontispiece 0
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Short description:
A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Elizabeth Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
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Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Vandiver argues that classics was a crucial source for writers from a wide variety of backgrounds, from working-class poets to those educated in public schools, and for a wide variety of political positions and viewpoints. Poets used references to classics both to support and to oppose the war from its beginning all the way to the Armistice and after. By exploring the importance of classics in the poetry of the First World War, Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
Review from previous edition Vandiver ranges from the history of classics teaching in schools at the end of the nineteenth century to detailed consideration of the history and usage of particular motifs suct famously reworked by Wilfred Owen. As well as public schools such as Eton and Marlborough, she scrutinizes the curricula of grammar schools and the ways in which classical texts were encountered both in the original and in translation. Hers is an inclusive study of poets and poems from across social classes and military ranks, devoting detailed attention to familiar figures such as Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, and Isaac Rosenberg, as well as less well-known writers, such as J.L. Crommelin Brown and Joseph Streets.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Education, Class, and Classics
`Sed Miles, Sed Pro Patria': Classics and Public School Culture
`Like the Roman in Brave Days of Old': Middle- and Working-Class Classics
II. Representing War
`The Riches of a Spartan Soul': Duty, Honour, Glory, and Sacrifice
`The Heroes Stir in their Lone Beds': The Second Trojan War
III. Death and Remembrance
`Yet Many a Better One Has Died Before': Deaths Imagined
`Their Doom Was Glorious': Commemoration and Remembrance
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
