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The Return of Pytheas is a study of poetry and poems through and across two language traditions - Greek and English. While the main focus is recent and contemporary, exchanges reach back as far as Aeschylus and the Iliad. The book thus investigates Christopher Logue's long and extraordinary engagement with Homer, as well as the more sporadic and varied influences of Greek landscape and culture since the 1960s on English poets such as Richard Berengarten, Sebastian Barker, Kelvin Corcoran and Peter Riley. The special history of Cavafy in Britain is also explored, starting with E. M. Forster, and continuing through the poetry of John Ash, Evan Jones and Don Paterson. As scenes from Ted Hughes's revisiting of ancient drama are echoed in Alice Oswald's recent writing, manifold continuations of translation and versioning are shown to be essential parts of poets' lives and work.
Contents
One: `The Iliad Suits You': Christopher Logue's Homer - from Patrocleia (1962) to the Posthumous Edition of War Music (2015)
1. The Troy That Modernism Built
2. Paint it Red: Between Logue's Early Experiences and an `Account'
3.Intertextuality, Anachronisms, Re-animations
4. Drafts and Fragments
Two: Translating as Part of the Poetry
1. Before and After Ted Hughes
2. Fragment as Method: On Josephine Balmer
3. Back to the Start: Alice Oswald and An `Excavation' of the Iliad
Three: The Travelling Players
1. `Poems for Friends in Greece 1967-1971':Richard Berengarten's Experience
2. In Memory of George Seferis / After T. S. Eliot
3. Anthologies of Presence
4. Collections of In-betweenness
Four: The Shade of Cavafy
1. Early Encounters
2. Contemporary Stances
Afterword: Periplous
Bibliography
Index
