Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical AnthologyGeoffrey Miles Routledge, 11 de set. 2002 - 470 pàgines 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: |
Continguts
A rough guide to the gods | 20 |
A mythical history of the world in one chapter | 35 |
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 |
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology Geoffrey Miles Previsualització limitada - 1999 |
Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology Geoffrey Miles Previsualització limitada - 1999 |
Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology Geoffrey Miles Previsualització limitada - 2002 |
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