Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk (Hardcover)

A: Theory of literature

Chapter 1

Literary language and critical values: a dialectic of ancient and modern

Stephen Halliwell

Chapter 2

What’s the meta- with you? Poetic language and metapoetics

Sebastian Matzner

Chapter 3

The animal life of poetry: variations on an impouvoir

Vasiliki Dimoula

Chapter 4

When ethics and poetics were one: Weltanschauung in nineteenth-century classical philology

Boris Maslov

B: Greek literature, archaic to classical

Chapter 5

?‘Language charged with meaning’: Sappho on a dream

Patrick Finglass

Chapter 6

The Thermopylai epigrams again: Herodotos 7.228

Chris Carey

Chapter 7

Billy-goat song: the acoustic effect and etymology of trag?idia

Edith Hall

Chapter 8

Clytemnestra’s handiwork in Aeschylus and Pindar

Oliver Taplin

Chapter 9

?Poetics of prose: a case study in Herodotus

Richard Rutherford

C: The German dimension

Chapter 10

Myth and ‘metaphysical reach’ in Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris

Matthew Bell

Chapter 11

Philology and poetry: the literary legacies of Nietzsche and Rohde

Bernhard Zimmermann

D: Classical reflexes beyond Greece and Germany

Chapter 12

Drawing a transparent veil: sexual euphemism in literature

William Fitzgerald

Chapter 13

Heroism at Troy and Hampton Court: Clarissa’s speech in The Rape of the Lock

David Hopkins

E: The Language Question: ‘neo-Latin’ and ‘modern Greek’ cases

Chapter 14

The quality of humanist Latin literature and the trouble with Neo-Latin

Andrew Laird

Chapter 15

Glossing the modern Greek poetic canon

David Ricks

F: Classicizing in a recalcitrant age

Chapter 16

Tragedy refigured in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings

Justine M^cConnell

Chapter 17

Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon, via Heaney

Fiona Macintosh

Bibliography of Michael Silk’s publications