The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation

Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivalling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal. Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another.


Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/23/1995
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.32w x 1.72d
ISBN: 9780192142092

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/1995 pg. 532
School Library Journal 05/01/1996 pg. 152
Booklist 03/15/1999 pg. 1275

About the Author

Adrian Poole is University Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Jeremy Maule is Newton Trust Assistant Lecturer in English, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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