{"product_id":"rupert-brooke-charles-sorley-isaac-lorna-hardwick-9780192856678","title":"Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen: Classical Connections","description":"Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied at school, whereas for Owen, who struggled with Latin, classical texts were a part of his aspirational literary imagination. Rosenberg's education was limited but he encountered some Greek and Roman literature through translations, and through mediations in English literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe various ways in which the poets engaged with classical literature are analysed in the commentaries, which are designed to be accessible to classicists and to users from other subject areas. The extensive range of connections made by the poets and by subsequent readers is explained in the Introduction to the volume. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe commentaries illuminate relationships between the poems and attitudes to the war at the time, in the immediate post-war years, and subsequently. They also probe how individual poems reveal various facets of the poetry of unease, the poetry of survival, and the poetics of war and ecology. References to the accompanying online \u003cem\u003eOxford Classical Receptions Commentaries\u003c\/em\u003e will enable readers to follow up their special interests. This volume differs from the shorter volume \u003cem\u003eGreek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making Connections\u003c\/em\u003e in that it covers the whole output of the four poets, and not just their war poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth VanDiver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192856677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192856678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.30w x 1.40d","brand":"Lorna Hardwick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46136193646847,"sku":"9780192856678","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_699492f7-6908-4358-839d-22b0f08e3856.jpg?v=1726415961","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rupert-brooke-charles-sorley-isaac-lorna-hardwick-9780192856678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}