Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical AnthologyGeoffrey Miles Routledge, 11 սեպ, 2002 թ. - 470 էջ Classical Mythology in English Literature brings together a range of English versions of three classical myths. It allows students to explore the ways in which they have been reinterpreted and reinvented by writers throughout history. Beginning with a concise introduction to the principle Greco-Roman gods and heroes, the anthology then focuses on three stories: |
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... heroes, the anthology then focuses on three stories: Orpheus and Eurydice, Venice and Adonis, and Pygmalion. Each section begins with the classical sources and ends with contemporary versions, and in the intervening centuries we see the ...
... heroes 42 The Trojan War and after 53 PART 2 4 Orpheus 61 INTRODUCTION 61 The ancient Orpheus 61 The medieval Orpheus: allegory and romance 64 Orphic harmony in the Renaissance 65 Orpheus in the eighteenth century: translations and ...
... hero, the patient and resourceful Odysseus, on his journey home after the war. Homer created the classic picture of the Greek heroic age, and also of the very human, quarrelsome and meddling Olympian gods. Other poets completed the ...
... heroes and the Trojan War, and many of the great tragic stories - Agamemnon and his children, Oedipus, Pcntheus, Jason and Medea, Phaedra and Hippolytus - took on their classic form in their plays. The dramatists took stories which were ...
... Hero and Leander, which scholars label 'erotic epyl- lions' - mini-epics about mythological lovers, set in pastoral landscapes, and fantastically embroidered with descriptions, digressions, and rhetorical debates until the simple story ...
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Orpheus | 61 |
Apollonius of Rhodes from Argonautica c 250 bc | 75 |
Virgil from the Georgics c 29 bc | 76 |
Horace from The Art of Poetry c 0bC | 80 |
Ovid from the Metamorphoses c ad 10 | 81 |
Boethiusfrom The Consolation of Philosophy c ad 520 | 88 |
Alexander Pope Odefor Musk on St Cecilias Day 1713 | 124 |
Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea To Mr Pope c 1714 | 128 |
R M A Song 1724 | 130 |
The Monkey Who Had Seen the World 1727 | 131 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Impromptu to a Young Lady Singing 1736? | 133 |
Henry Fielding from Eurydice 1737 | 134 |
William Collins ?from On the Use and Abuse of Poetry c 1750 | 136 |
Anna Seward from Elegy on Captain Cook 1780 | 137 |
Medieval mythographers | 90 |
b Thomas ofWalsingham c 1405 | 91 |
Robert Henry son from Orpheus and Eurydice later Jfteenth century | 96 |
Edmund Spenser on Orpheus | 101 |
b fromThe Faerie Queene 1596 | 103 |
George Puttenhamfrom The Art of English Poesy 1589 | 104 |
Philip Sidneyfrom Astrophil and Stella 1591 | 105 |
George Chapman from Ovids Banquet of Sense 1595 | 106 |
William Shakespeare | 107 |
c from Henry VIII or All Is True 1613 | 109 |
Giles Fletcherfrom Christs Victory and Triumph 610 | 111 |
When Orpheus Sweetly Did Complain 1620s? | 113 |
George Sandys from Ovids Metamorphoses Englished 1632 | 114 |
Thomas Carewfrom An Elegy upon the Death of Dr John Donne 1633 | 116 |
Alexander Ross from Mystagogus Poeticus 1647 | 118 |
a from LAllegro c 1631 | 119 |
b from IIPenseroso c 1631 | 120 |
d from Paradise Lost 1667 | 121 |
John Dryden On the Death of Mr Purced 1696 | 123 |
William Wordsworth from The Prelude 1805 | 138 |
Lord Byron fromHintsfrom Horace 1811 | 139 |
Thomas Love Peacock from The Four Ages of Poetry 1820 | 140 |
Sydney Goodsir Smith fromOrpheus 1948 | 163 |
OTHER VERSIONS OF ORPHEUS | 191 |
TEXTS | 209 |
A2 Bion Lament for Adonis c 100 bc | 217 |
A4 Ovid from the Metamorphoses c ad 10 | 225 |
OTHER VERSIONS OF VENUS AND ADONIS | 329 |
TEXTS | 346 |
P4 John Gowerfrom Confessio Amantis c 1390 | 350 |
P8 William Shakespeare from The Winters Tale c 1610 | 366 |
PI3 Soame Jenyns The Choice mideighteenth century | 379 |
PI8 Nathaniel Hawthorne Drownes Wooden Image 1846 | 398 |
P21 William Morrisfrom Pygmalion and the Image 1868 | 413 |
P25 H D Pygmalion 1917 | 437 |
Bibliography | 450 |