Reading Poetry, Writing Genre : English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyrights -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Silvio Bär and Emily Hauser -- 1 Classical Pieces: Fragmenting Genres in Medieval England Amanda J. Gerber -- 2 'Poetry is a Speaking Picture': Framing a Poetics of Virtue in Late Elizabethan England Emma Buckley -- 3 A Revolutionary Vergil: James Harrington, Poetry, and Political Performance Ariane Schwartz -- 4 The Devouring Maw: Complexities of Classical Genre in Milton's Paradise Lost Caroline Stark -- 5 Georgic as Genre: The Scholarly Reception of Vergil in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain Juan Christian Pellicer -- 6 Rhyme and Reason: The Homeric Translations of Dryden, Pope, and Morris Lilah Grace Canevaro -- 7 From Epic to Monologue: Tennyson and Homer Isobel Hurst -- 8 The Elizabethan Epyllion: From Constructed Classical Genre to Twentieth-Century Genre Propre Silvio Bär -- 9 'Homer Undone': Homeric Scholarship and the Invention of Female Epic Emily Hauser -- 10 Generic 'Transgressions' and the Personal Voice Fiona Cox -- Notes -- References -- General Index -- Index of Passages Cited.

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