Stand in the trench, achilles: classical receptions in british poetry of the great war

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. INDICE: Introduction; I. Education, Class, and Classics; 1: 'Sed Miles,Sed Pro Patria': Classics and Public School Culture; 2: 'Like the Roman in Brave Days of Old': Middle- and Working-Class Classics; II. Representing War; 3:'The Riches of a Spartan Soul': Duty, Honour, Glory, and Sacrifice; 4: 'The Heroes Stir in their Lone Beds': The Second Trojan War; III. Death and Remembrance; 5: 'Yet Many a Better One Has Died Before': Deaths Imagined; 6: 'Their Doom Was Glorious': Commemoration and Remembrance; Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-19-954274-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 480
• Fecha Publicación: 18/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés