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Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk book cover

1st Edition

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

Edited By Fiona Macintosh, David Ricks Copyright 2026
268 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The publication of Interaction in Poetic Imagery: With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry in 1974 inaugurated Michael Silk (1941–) as a Hellenist of exceptional learning and critical acumen, as a strenuous and ambitious theorist of literature, and as a comparatist of wide reach within the Western tradition. The present volume honours this distinctive voice in literary studies with a... Read more

PART A Theory of literature

1 Literary language and critical values: A dialectic of ancient and modern

Stephen Halliwell

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

Sebastian Matzner

3 The animal life of poetry: Variations on an impouvoir

Vasiliki Dimoula

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

Boris Maslov

PART B Greek literature, archaic to classical

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

P. J. Finglass

6 The Thermopylai epigrams again: Herodotos 7.228

Chris Carey

7 Billy-goat song: The acoustic effect and etymology of tragōidia

Edith Hall

8 Clytemnestra’s handiwork in Aeschylus and Pindar

Oliver Taplin

9 Poetics of prose: A case study in Herodotus

Richard Rutherford

PART C The German dimension

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

Matthew Bell

11 Philology and poetry: The literary legacies of Nietzsche and Rohde

Bernhard Zimmermann

PART D Classical reflexes beyond Greece and Germany

12 Drawing a transparent veil: Sexual euphemism in literature

William Fitzgerald

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

David Hopkins

PART E The language question: ‘Neo-Latin’ and ‘modern Greek’ cases

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

Andrew Laird

15 Glossing the modern Greek poetic canon

David Ricks

PART F Classicizing in a recalcitrant age

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

Justine McConnell

17 Sublimity at Colonus: From Yeats to Mahon, via Heaney

Fiona Macintosh

Michael Silk: A Bibliography

Biography

Fiona Macintosh is Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception and Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. She was the Director of the APGRD in Oxford from 2010 to 2024 and has published widely on the reception of ancient epic and tragedy in the modern world.

David Ricks is Professor Emeritus, King’s College London, and sometime editor of the journals Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He has written widely on modern Greek poetry and on the classical tradition.

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