The Return of Pytheas
Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue
Published on 29. December 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
156 pages
978-1-84861-567-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Return of Pytheas is a study of poetry and poems through and across two language traditions - Greek and English. While the main focus is recent and contemporary, exchanges reach back as far as Aeschylus and the Iliad. The book thus investigates Christopher Logue's long and extraordinary engagement with Homer, as well as the more sporadic and varied influences of Greek landscape and culture since the 1960s on English poets such as Richard Berengarten, Sebastian Barker, Kelvin Corcoran and Peter Riley. The special history of Cavafy in Britain is also explored, starting with E. M. Forster, and continuing through the poetry of John Ash, Evan Jones and Don Paterson. As scenes from Ted Hughes's revisiting of ancient drama are echoed in Alice Oswald's recent writing, manifold continuations of translation and versioning are shown to be essential parts of poets' lives and work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
242 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-567-0 (9781848615670)
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Person
Paschalis Nikolaou is Assistant Professor in Literary Translation in the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. His previous publications include The Perfect Order: Selected Poems of Nasos Vayenas 1974-2010 (co-editor); Translating Selves: Experience and Identity Between Languages and Literatures (co-editor); 12 Greek Poems after Cavafy (editor); and Richard Berengarten: A Portrait in Inter-Views (co-editor).
Content
One: `The Iliad Suits You': Christopher Logue's Homer - from Patrocleia (1962) to the Posthumous Edition of War Music (2015)
1. The Troy That Modernism Built
2. Paint it Red: Between Logue's Early Experiences and an `Account'
3.Intertextuality, Anachronisms, Re-animations
4. Drafts and Fragments
Two: Translating as Part of the Poetry
1. Before and After Ted Hughes
2. Fragment as Method: On Josephine Balmer
3. Back to the Start: Alice Oswald and An `Excavation' of the Iliad
Three: The Travelling Players
1. `Poems for Friends in Greece 1967-1971':Richard Berengarten's Experience
2. In Memory of George Seferis / After T. S. Eliot
3. Anthologies of Presence
4. Collections of In-betweenness
Four: The Shade of Cavafy
1. Early Encounters
2. Contemporary Stances
Afterword: Periplous
Bibliography
Index
1. The Troy That Modernism Built
2. Paint it Red: Between Logue's Early Experiences and an `Account'
3.Intertextuality, Anachronisms, Re-animations
4. Drafts and Fragments
Two: Translating as Part of the Poetry
1. Before and After Ted Hughes
2. Fragment as Method: On Josephine Balmer
3. Back to the Start: Alice Oswald and An `Excavation' of the Iliad
Three: The Travelling Players
1. `Poems for Friends in Greece 1967-1971':Richard Berengarten's Experience
2. In Memory of George Seferis / After T. S. Eliot
3. Anthologies of Presence
4. Collections of In-betweenness
Four: The Shade of Cavafy
1. Early Encounters
2. Contemporary Stances
Afterword: Periplous
Bibliography
Index