
Robert DeMaria, ROBERT BROWN (éd.), Classical Literature and its Reception : An Anthology
Description de l'éditeur :
This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature.
# Gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry.
# Divided into two halves - the first half presenting a selection of the best British poems, and the second presenting relevant classical works in translation.
# Notes and introductions highlight the connections between British works and their classical forebears.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on the Texts
English Writers
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400), from The Wife of Bath's Prologue lines 627-822
Edmund Spenser (1552-99), from The Faerie Queene, Book 2, Canto 12
Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618), The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Astrophil and Stella 1-3, 47, 83
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets 55, 60, 74, 77
Thomas Campion (1567-1620), My Sweetest Lesbia
Ben Jonson (1572-1637), To Penshurst; Inviting a Friend to Supper
John Donne (1572-1631), The Sun Rising; Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time; To His Muse
John Milton (1608-1674), Lycidas from Paradise Lost ; Book 1, lines 1-74 ; Book 4, lines 411-91
Richard Lovelace (1618-58), Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland; To His Coy Mistress
John Dryden (1631-1700), To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Aphra Behn (1640?-1689), The Disappointment; The Golden Age
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), The Imperfect Enjoyment
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), A Description of a City Shower
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), from The RAPE of the LOCK; Canto I; Canto IV
James Thomson (1700-1748), Winter: A Poem (1726)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), The Vanity of Human Wishes
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard; Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
Mary Leapor (1722-1746), An Essay on Woman
William Cowper (1731-1800), Epitaph on a Hare
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Laodamia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Kubla Khan
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Adonais
John Keats (1795-1821), Ode on a Grecian Urn
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), The Lotos-Eaters
Robert Browning (1812-1889), Pan and Luna
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), Dover Beach
Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), A Shropshire Lad XV
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), A Thought from Propertius; Two Songs from a Play
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), Dulce et Decorum Est
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), The Shield of Achilles
Derek Walcott (1930-), from Omeros; Book 1, Chapter 1
Seamus Heaney (1939- ), Bann Valley Eclogue; Classical Writers
Homer (8th century BCE?), from the Iliad - Book 1, lines 1-305, Book 18, lines 478-608; from the Odyssey - Book 1, lines 1-10, Book 5, lines 148-281, Book 8, lines 266-366, Book 9, lines 16-124, Book 10, lines 198-347, Book 12, lines 142-259
Hesiod (fl. c. 700 BCE), from Theogony - lines 1-80; from Works and Days - lines 53-201, lines 504-35
Sophocles (c. 496-406 BCE), from Antigone - lines 582-602; from Trachiniae - lines 112-38
Thucydides (c. 455-400 BCE), from The Peloponnesian War - Book 7, 44
Plato (c. 429-347 BCE), from Symposium - sections 209e-212a; from Ion - sections 533a-535c
Asclepiades (fl. early 3rd c. BCE), from the Greek Anthology - Book 5, 85
Theocritus (fl. early 3rd c. BCE), Idyll 1; Idyll 11
Bion (fl. late 2nd c. BCE?), Lament for Adonis
Meleager (fl. 100 BCE), from the Greek Anthology - Book 7, 207
Moschus, so-called (1st c. BCE?), Lament for Bion
Lucretius (c. 94-55 BCE), from On the Nature of Things - Book 2, lines 646-60, Book 3, lines 1-30, Book 3, lines 894-911
Catullus (c. 84-54 BCE), Carmen 2, Carmen 3, Carmen 5, Carmen 8, Carmen 13, Carmen 101
Virgil (70-19 BCE), Eclogue 2, Eclogue 4, Eclogue 5, Eclogue 10; from the Georgics - Book 1, lines 299-423, Book 2, lines 458-542, Book 3, lines 384-93; from the Aeneid - Book 1, lines 1-215, Book 2, lines 1-56, Book 4, lines 1-30, Book 5, lines 315-39, Book 6, lines 268-316, Book 6, lines 679-751, Book 6, lines 854-92, Book 11, lines 759-831
Horace (65-8 BCE), from the Satires - Book 2, 6; Epode 2; from the Odes, Book 1, 11, Book 1, 37, Book 2, 18, Book 3, 2, Book 3, 30, Book 4, 7, Book 4, 10; from the Epistles - Book 1, 5
Tibullus (c. 50-19 BCE), from the Elegies - Book 2, 3
Propertius (c. 50-16 BCE), from the Elegies - Book 2, 2, Book 2, 15
Ovid (43 BCE- 17 CE), from the Amores - Book 1, 1, Book 1, 2, Book 1, 3, Book 1, 5, Book 1, 13, Book 2, 6, Book 3, 7; Heroides 13; from the Art of Love - Book 1, lines 269-344; Metamorphoses - Book 1, lines 89-112, Book 1, lines 253-312, Book 1, lines 452-567, Book 2, lines 760-832, Book 3, lines 316-510, Book 15, lines 143-258, Book 15, lines 871-79
Pliny the Elder (c. 23-79 CE), from the Natural History - Book 16, 88
Lucan (39-65 CE), from the Civil War - Book 1, lines 114-57, Book 1, lines 223-43
Martial (c. 40-104 CE), from the Epigrams - Book 1, 3, Book 3, 58, Book 5, 78, Book 10, 48, Book 11, 52
Juvenal (fl. early 2nd c. CE), from Satire 6 - lines 1-54, lines 434-507; Satire 10
Cross-reference Tables
I. English-Classical
II. Classical-English
List of Authors
I. English
II. Classical
III. Translators
List of Titles
I. English
II. Classical
Index to the Notes
Les auteurs
Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English and Chair of the Department at Vassar College. His recent publications include Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997) and British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2001).
Robert D. Brown is Professor of Classics at Vassar College on the Sarah Miles Raynor Chair. He is the author of Lucretius on Love and Sex (1987) and articles on a range of Roman authors including Lucretius, Caesar, Virgil, Horace, Livy, and Ovid.