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Tony Harrison - Poet of Radical Classicism (Hardcover)
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Tony Harrison - Poet of Radical Classicism (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing
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This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony
Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England
and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical
classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should
be a public property in which communal problems are shared and
crystallised, and that the poet has a responsibility to speak in a
public voice about collective and political concerns. Enriched by
Edith Hall's longstanding friendship with Harrison and involvement
with his most recent drama, inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia in
Tauris, it also asserts that his greatest innovations in both form
and style have been direct results of his intense engagements with
individual works of ancient literature and his belief that the
ancient Greek poetic imagination was inherently radical. Tony
Harrison's large body of work, for which he has won several major
and international prizes, and which features on the UK National
Curriculum, ranges widely across long and short poems, plays,
translations and film poems. Having studied Classics at Grammar
School and University and having translated ancient poets from
Aeschylus to Martial and Palladas, Harrison has been immersed in
the myths, history, literary forms and authorial voices of
Mediterranean antiquity for his entire working life and his
classical interests are reflected in every poetic genre he has
essayed, from epigrams and sonnets to original stage plays,
translations of Greek drama and Racine, to his experimental and
harrowing film poems, where he has pioneered the welding of tightly
cut video materials to tightly phrased verse forms. This volume
explores the full breadth of his oeuvre, offering an insightful new
perspective on a writer who has played an important part in shaping
our contemporary literary landscape.
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