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Review: Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own, Picador. 128pp. ISBN: 978-1447241218
Pre-print edition of review in Argo (2015) Daisy Dunn ed.
(London: Bell & Bain) 1.32-33
Pre-print edition of review in Argo (2015) Daisy Dunn ed.
(London: Bell & Bain) 1.32-33
Catullus, one of the most Hellenizing, scandalous, and emotionally expressive of the Roman poets, burst onto the British cultural scene during the Romantic era. It was not until this socially, politically, and culturally explosive epoch,... more
... in Movrin & Olechowska eds. (2016), Classics and Class: Greek and Latin Classics and Communism at School (Warsaw/Ljubljana) pp 3-31.
The Paper uploaded here is a pre-print version.
The Paper uploaded here is a pre-print version.
Pre-print: Review of Amanda Wrigley's book: WRIGLEY, A . (2015) Greece on Air. Engagements with Ancient Greece on BBC Radio, 1920s–1960s. Pp. xxii + 328, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £80, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-19-964478-0. doi:... more
A scan of an article for Argo: A Hellenic Review (issue 6, Autumn/Winter 2017, pp24-26) about the poet Tony Harrison.
This chapter introduces the reader to Tony Harrison’s audiovisual poetry, composed for and broadcast on British television through the late 1980s and 1990s. Harrison has to date made twelve full documentary film-poems, and one film-poem... more
- by Henry Stead
This thesis explores the reception of Catullus in Britain between 1780 and 1830. After a brief summary of attitudes towards classical culture in Romantic Britain, the first chapter begins by examining the key translations of Catullus in... more
Discusses Ted Hughes' revision process for David Turner's translation of Seneca's "Oedipus": "By great poetic skill and aggressive editing methods Hughes made Turner’s Oedipus his own. His play is in the end a... more