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LIVING CLASSICS This page intentionally left blank Living Classics Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English Editedby S. J. HARRISON 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork ©OxfordUniversityPress2009 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2009 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Livingclassics:GreeceandRomeincontemporary poetryinEnglish/editedbyS.J.Harrison. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN978–0–19–923373–1(acid-freepaper) 1. Englishpoetry—20thcentury—Classicalinfluences. 2. Americanpoetry—20th century—Classicalinfluences. 3. NewZealandpoetry—20thcentury—Classicalinfluences. 4. Classicalliterature—Influence. 5. Englishpoetry—English-speakingcountries—20thcentury. I. Harrison,S.J. PR508.C68L58 2009 821(cid:1).9140935838—dc22 2009016664 TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby MPGBooksGroup,BodminandKing’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN 978–0–19–923373–1 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 ForChristopherNicholson 10.4.2008 This page intentionally left blank Editor’s Preface The initial stimulus for this book derives from a conference on the samethemeheldinOxfordinSeptember2005attheThirdPassmore EdwardsColloquium.Chapters1–3,5,8,9and11–14arerevisedver- sionsoftalksgivenonthatoccasion.MythanksgotoCorpusChristi and Oriel Colleges, Oxford, for hosting the conference, and to their respective staffs (especially Sam Cunningham at Corpus) for their assistance. The conference was generously funded by the Passmore EdwardsFundoftheFacultyBoardofEnglishatOxford,whichspon- sorsacademicactivitylinkingClassicsandEnglish:IthanktheBoard anditsthenadministrator,PaulBurns.Thanksarealsoduetoallthe speakers and attenders, especially Helen Eastman and Floodtide for their performance of Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy and Yopie Prins (whose paper will appear as part of her forthcoming larger project ‘Ladies’ Greek’) for making the transatlantic trip. My warm thanksalsogotoEmilyGreenwood,IsobelHurst,AnnaJacksonand Oliver Taplin for their positive responses to subsequent invitations tocontributetothevolume.ThanksarealsoduetoHilaryO’Sheaof OUPforherencouragementtowardspublication,toLornaHardwick and Jim Porter for their acceptance of the volume in their ‘Classical Presences’series,andtoTomChandlerforhiscopy-editing. Acknowledgements of origins, copyrights and permissions to reprint are due as follows. In the case of poets citing their own work,IammostgratefultoMaureenAlmond(Chapter1),Josephine Balmer (Chapter 2), Robert Crawford (Chapter 3), Anna Jackson (Chapter 4), and Michael Longley (Chapter 5) for permissions to reprint. An earlier version of part of Chapter 3 was published in the Yale Review (95.1) in January 2007; I and Robert Crawford are bothgratefultotheeditoroftheYaleReviewforallowingthere-use of some of that material. Chapter 4 is a revised version of a piece publishedinAntichthon40(2006).Chapter6reprintstheprefaceto TonyHarrison,Euripides:Hecuba(FaberandFaber,2005);Iammost grateful to Tony Harrisonforpermissionto reprint.The quotations viii Editor’sPreface from Michael Longley’s work in Chapters 8–10 are reprinted by the author’skindpermission.Chapter7reprintsSeamusHeaney’s2004 JayneLecturefromtheProceedingsoftheAmericanPhilosophicalSoci- ety, Vol. 148, no. 4 (December 2004); I am most grateful to Seamus Heaney and the American Philosophical Society for permission to reprint that lecture, and also to Seamus Heaney for permission to reprint the extracts from his work in Chapters 10 and 14. The quo- tations from Sylvia Plath’s ‘Electra on Azalea Path’ in Chapter 12 are reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber. The illustration in Chapter13isusedbykindpermissionofTheNationalGalleryofVic- toria in Melbourne (full acknowledgement is made in the caption). InChapter14(whereindividualpublicationdetailsarecitedineach case) acknowledgements are due for kind permissions to reprint to FleurAdcock,EavanBoland,U.A.Fanthorpe,RachelHadas,Medbh McGuckian and The Gallery Press, Faber and Faber (for that of PaulMuldoon)CarcanetPressLimited(ForthatofAnneRidlerand LouiseGlück)andHarperCollins(forthatofLouiseGlück);likewise toJorieGrahamforChapter16.TheworkofJamesK.Baxterquoted in Chapter 17 is reprinted by the permission of Oxford University Press, that of C. K. Stead cited in the same chapter by the author’s permission. All other copyright work quoted in this book is cited in conformity with the guidelines for ‘fair dealing for criticism and review’proposedbytheSocietyofAuthors. This volume is dedicated in honour of his seventieth birthday to Christopher Nicholson, who first opened up for me the world of poetry. S.J.H CorpusChristiCollege,Oxford September2008 Contents ListofContributors xi Introduction:TheReturnofClassics 1 StephenHarrison PARTI POETSANDPRACTICE 1. HoraceonTeesside 19 MaureenAlmond 2. JumpingtheirBones:Translating,Transgressing, andCreating 43 JosephineBalmer 3. ReconnectingwiththeClassics 65 RobertCrawford 4. CatullusinthePlayground 82 AnnaJackson 5. LapsedClassicist 97 MichaelLongley PARTII POETSINTHETHEATRE 6. WeepingforHecuba 117 TonyHarrison 7. TitleDeeds:TranslatingaClassic 122 SeamusHeaney PARTIII SCHOLARSONPOETS 8. TheArgippaei(Herodotus4.23)inBelfast 143 MaureenAlden
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