Overview

This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C. H. Sisson (1915-2003), a major English poet, critic and translator. The collection aims to offer an overall guide to his work for new readers, while also encouraging established readers of one aspect (such as his well-known classical translations) to explore others. It champions in particular the quality of his original poetry. The book brings together contributions from scholars and critics working in a wide range of fields, including classical reception, translation studies and early modern literature as well as modern English poetry, and concludes with a more personal essay on Sisson’s work by Michael Schmidt, his publisher.

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Author:   Victoria Moul ,  John Talbot
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.478kg
ISBN:  

9783031148279

ISBN 10:   3031148274
Pages:   255
Publication Date:   02 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction (Victoria Moul and John Talbot).- Chapter 2. Sisson, Aeneid 6, and Roman Poems9 ( Charlie Louth).- Chapter 3. ‘Young men would disconcertingly spring from perambulators’: Sisson’s English atoms (N. J. Lowe) .- Chapter 4. C. H. Sisson in Exile; Versions and Perversions of Ovid’s Tristia (Christopher Trinacty) .-Chapter 5. ‘Magnificent Anachronism’: Sisson in the Seventeenth-Century (Hannah Crawforth) .- Chapter 6. Thoughts on the Churchyard and the Fortunes of the Baroque from Balde and Gryphius to C. H. Sisson (Kenneth Haynes) .- Chapter 7. Marvell and Sisson at the Intersection of Times (John Talbot) .-Chapter 8. ‘Poet of church and state’: C. H. Sisson and the Church of England (Peter Webster) .- Chapter 9. One Eye on the Archive: C. H. Sisson’s Indian Writings (Henry King) .- Chapter 10. ‘Here lies a civil servant’: C. H. Sisson and the Possibility of Honesty (Alex Wylie) .- Chapter 11. Identity and incarnation in the poetry of C. H. Sisson (Victoria Moul) .- Afterword: Tutelary Spirit (Michael Schmidt)

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Victoria Moul is Reader in Early Modern Latin and English at University College London, UK. John Talbot is Associate Professor of English Literature at Brigham Young University, USA.  

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