Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry Making Connections

Lorna Hardwick, Professor Emerita in Classical Studies, The Open University,Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford,Elizabeth Vandiver, Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Emerita, Whitman College

Lorna Hardwick is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University and Honorary Research Associate at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Oxford. She is the Director of the Oxford University Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English 1990-2005 digital project and the joint Series Editor of the OUP series Classical Presences and Classical Interventions. She convenes the international research network Classics and Poetry Now (CAPN) and was a founding convener of the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN). Hardwick was the founding editor of the Classical Receptions journal and the Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies. She is a joint editor (with Stephen Harrison and Elizabeth Vandiver) of the OUP digital and print project Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries (OCRC).

Stephen Harrison has been a fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford since 1987 and was tutor in Latin from 1987 to 2020. He has been a visiting lecturer on six continents, makes regular visits to North America and Italy, and has worked for some years on collaborative Latin commentary projects in the Netherlands and Germany. He is an occasional visiting professor at the Universities of Copenhagen, Trondheim, and Stellenbosch and has been a visiting professor/fellow at Princeton IAS, Stanford, Bergen, La Sapienza (Rome), Tel Aviv, and the Universities of Canterbury and Otago. He is a joint editor (with Lorna Hardwick and Elizabeth Vandiver) of the OUP digital and print project Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries (OCRC).

Elizabeth Vandiver retired from Whitman College in 2019, where she taught from 2004. Before coming to Whitman, she held positions at Northwestern University, the University of Maryland, Loyola University (New Orleans), and Rhodes College (Memphis), among others. She taught for a year at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. She is a joint editor (with Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison) of the OUP digital and print project Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries (OCRC).

Introduction, Lorna Hardwick1. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), Stephen Harrison2. Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915), Stephen Harrison3. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), Lorna Hardwick4. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), Elizabeth Vandiver