Stand in the Trench, Achilles Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War

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ISBN: 9780199542741 | 0199542740
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/28/2010

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Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Vandiver argues that classics was a crucial source for

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Introduction
Education, Class, and Classics
'Sed Miles, Sed Pro Patria': Classics and Public School Culture
'Like the Roman in Brave Days of Old': Middle- and Working-Class Classics
Representing War
'The Riches of a Spartan Soul': Duty, Honour, Glory, and Sacrifice
'The Heroes Stir in their Lone Beds': The Second Trojan War
Death and Remembrance
'Yet Many a Better One Has Died Before': Deaths Imagined
'Their Doom Was Glorious': Commemoration and Remembrance
Conclusion
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