Classical Literature And Its Reception - An Anthology

An alarming number of undergraduate and graduate students do not have sufficient background in classical literature to interpret, let alone understand, the influence of Greek and Latin poetry upon that in English. This book presents the work of British, Irish and Caribbean writers--including Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Marvell, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Cowper, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Housman, Yeats, Auden, Walcot and Heaney--with influential passages from such classical writers as Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato, Catallus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Pliny the Elder, Lucan, Martial and Juvenal. The editors provide biographies for each author, comprehensive cross-reference tables, lists of authors, and lists of titles. The result is also valuable for advanced readers seeking specific references. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English and Chair of the Department at Vassar College. His recent publications include Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997) and British Literature 1640–1789: An Anthology (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2001).

Robert D. Brown is Professor of Classics at Vassar College on the Sarah Miles Raynor Chair. He is the author of Lucretius on Love and Sex (1987) and articles on a range of Roman authors including Lucretius, Caesar, Virgil, Horace, Livy, and Ovid.