Roman Poets in Modern Guise - 9781640140776

Roman Poets in Modern GuiseThe Reception of Roman Poetry since World War I\nAuthor(s): Theodore Ziolkowski\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640140776, 978-1640140776\nSynopsis\nIdentifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets.\n\nAnalogies with Rome have been a powerful motif in American thought - and poetry - since the Founding Fathers. They resurged in the twentieth century, and especially after World War II, when the US saw its mission as analogous to that of Augustan Rome - a theme conspicuous in Robert Frost's poem for the Kennedy inauguration, which prophesied \""The glory of a next Augustan age.\""\nThis theme showed up in the poetry of other countries too. The Roman mode that Frost proclaimed was evident in not only American, but also French and German treatments of Virgil's Eclogues. Horace figures in poets from .