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STAND IN THE TRENCH, ACHILLES
CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS IN BRITISH POETRY OF THE GREAT WAR |
| By: |
Elizabeth Vandiver |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£192.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199542740 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199542741 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
18 February, 2010 |
| Series: |
Classical Presences |
| Pages: |
480 |
| 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
Frontispiece |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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