New Light on Tony Harrison
Published on 3. January 2019
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-19-726651-9 (ISBN)
Description
New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors include practising poets, playwrights, specialists in Classics, Theatre, Translation Studies, English and World Literature, and professionals in media where Harrison's extensive work has been least researched. The aim of the volume is to explore new approaches to the understanding of the work of one of our most important poets.
The volume examines four main areas:
Tony Harrison's more recent poems
The continuation of his relationship with ancient theatre after the landmark Oresteia and Trackers of the 1980-1990 decade, alongside his evolving dramatic relationship with Euripides and with French authors (Hugo, Moliere, Racine)
Harrison's profound contribution during his periods of residence abroad in Africa, North America, Moscow and Prague, and his popularity in French and Italian translation;
His extensive body of poems written specifically for television and radio.
This is a must for fans of Tony Harrison's work and for those with an interest in, or studying English Literature, Classical Mythology, Theatre Studies, and Film courses.
The volume examines four main areas:
Tony Harrison's more recent poems
The continuation of his relationship with ancient theatre after the landmark Oresteia and Trackers of the 1980-1990 decade, alongside his evolving dramatic relationship with Euripides and with French authors (Hugo, Moliere, Racine)
Harrison's profound contribution during his periods of residence abroad in Africa, North America, Moscow and Prague, and his popularity in French and Italian translation;
His extensive body of poems written specifically for television and radio.
This is a must for fans of Tony Harrison's work and for those with an interest in, or studying English Literature, Classical Mythology, Theatre Studies, and Film courses.
Reviews / Votes
Their essays combine to form a remarkable celebration of the integrity, depth, learning, intelligence and politics of Britain's most important living poet: the bard of Leeds. * Sean Sheehan, Scottish Left Review * Edith Hall has skilfully edited this disparate collection into an affectionate tribute and an appreciative overview of his poetry. The volume makes a good introduction to the poet and his work, while celebrating TH at 80. * Alan Beale, Classics for all *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
586 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-726651-9 (9780197266519)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
After holding posts at the universities of Reading, Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, and Royal Holloway, Edith Hall took up a Chair in Classics at King's College London in 2012. She has published more than twenty-five books on ancient Greek and Roman culture and their continuing role in culture since the Renaissance. She is Co-Founder of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate from Athens University in 2017.
Content
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction by Edith Hall
Part I: Harrison's Example
1: Blake Morrison: Harrison as Elegist
2: Simon Armitage: Untitled Talk
3: Lee Hall: The Man Who Came to Read the Metre
4: Jo Balmer: Lost in the Original: Harrison as a Classicist Poet
Part II: Harrison's Poems
5: Claire Armitstead: Tony Harrison and the Guardian
6: Sandie Byrne: Metre and Memory
7: Oliver Taplin: Tony Harrison's Polygonal Ode to Delphi
Part III: Harrison's Theatre
8: Rachel Bower: Nigeria, Masque, and Masks
9: Hallie Marshall: The Early Years at the National Theatre: Harrison's Molie?re and Racine
10: Fiona Macintosh: Harrison as Scholar-Poet of the Theatre
11: Edith Hall: Verbal and Visual Witnessing: Tony Harrison's Euripides
Part IV: Harrison's France and Italy
12: Christine Regan: 'v.' Revisited: Harrison, Rimbaud, and the French Radical Tradition
13: Cecile Marshall: The Translation and Reception of Harrison's Poetry in France
14: Giovanni Greco: Wine and Poetry: Translating Tony Harrison in Italy
Part V: Harrison's Film Poetry
15: Peter Symes: A Poet behind the Camera
16: Antony Rowland: Modernism and the 'Double Consciousness' of Myth in Tony Harrison's Poems and Metamorpheus
17: Henry Stead
Afterword: 'For Tony at 80' A Poem by Sir Richard Eyre
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction by Edith Hall
Part I: Harrison's Example
1: Blake Morrison: Harrison as Elegist
2: Simon Armitage: Untitled Talk
3: Lee Hall: The Man Who Came to Read the Metre
4: Jo Balmer: Lost in the Original: Harrison as a Classicist Poet
Part II: Harrison's Poems
5: Claire Armitstead: Tony Harrison and the Guardian
6: Sandie Byrne: Metre and Memory
7: Oliver Taplin: Tony Harrison's Polygonal Ode to Delphi
Part III: Harrison's Theatre
8: Rachel Bower: Nigeria, Masque, and Masks
9: Hallie Marshall: The Early Years at the National Theatre: Harrison's Molie?re and Racine
10: Fiona Macintosh: Harrison as Scholar-Poet of the Theatre
11: Edith Hall: Verbal and Visual Witnessing: Tony Harrison's Euripides
Part IV: Harrison's France and Italy
12: Christine Regan: 'v.' Revisited: Harrison, Rimbaud, and the French Radical Tradition
13: Cecile Marshall: The Translation and Reception of Harrison's Poetry in France
14: Giovanni Greco: Wine and Poetry: Translating Tony Harrison in Italy
Part V: Harrison's Film Poetry
15: Peter Symes: A Poet behind the Camera
16: Antony Rowland: Modernism and the 'Double Consciousness' of Myth in Tony Harrison's Poems and Metamorpheus
17: Henry Stead
Afterword: 'For Tony at 80' A Poem by Sir Richard Eyre
Bibliography
Index