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Author Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956-

Title Stand in the trench, Achilles : classical receptions in British poetry of the Great War / Elizabeth Vandiver.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 455 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Classical presences
Classical presences.
Contents Education, class, and classics. 'Sed miles, sed pro patria': classics and public-school culture ; 'Like the Roman in brave days of old': middle-and working-class classics -- Representing war. 'The riches of a Spartan soul': duty, honour, glory, and sacrifice ; 'The heroes stir in their lone beds': the second Trojan war -- Death and remembrance. 'Yet many a better one has died before': Deaths imagined ; 'Their doom was glorious': commemoration and remembrance.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-428) and index.
Summary "Stand in the Trench, Achilles examines the range of classical receptions in British poetry of the First World War. Elizabeth Vandiver considers poets from a wide social spectrum and discusses the ways in which they refigured classical literature. Vandiver demonstrates that classics and its previous appropriations in English literature provided a rich source of images, tropes, and even verbal expressions for writers of different backgrounds, different political positions, and different viewpoints on the war."--Jacket.
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Subject World War (1914-1918)
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Subject War poetry, English -- History and criticism.
War poetry, English.
Classical literature -- Influence.
Classical literature -- Influence.
Classical literature.
Civilization, Classical -- Influence.
Civilization, Classical -- Influence.
Civilization, Classical.
Reader-response criticism.
Reader-response criticism.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry.
Other Form: Print version: Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956- Stand in the trench, Achilles. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780199542741 (DLC) 2009032389 (OCoLC)430678963
ISBN 9780191572807 (electronic book)
0191572802 (electronic book)
9780199542741
0199542740