Many present-day readers of British literature have little background knowledge of classical literature and therefore find it hard to appreciate the relationship between the two traditions. This anthology presents a selection of works that illustrates the traffic between British poetry and classical literature. It gives readers the classical background they need in order to really appreciate British poetry, and it provides those already familiar with classical works with reflections of Greek and Latin authors in English.The anthology is divided into two halves. The first half comprises a selection of the best British poems from Chaucer to Heaney, arranged in chronological order. Some are imitations or loose translations of classical originals, as with Samuel Johnson's imitation of Juvenal's tenth satire, "The Vanity of Human Wishes." Others, such as Milton's "Lycidas", adapt classical models or classical themes. Relevant classical works are presented in translation in the second half of the anthology, which is organized alphabetically for ease of reference.

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Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English and Chair of the Department at Vassar College. His recent publications include Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997) and British Literature 1640?789: An Anthology (Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2001). Robert D. Brown is Professor of Classics at Vassar College on the Sarah Miles Raynor Chair. He is the author of Lucretius on Love and Sex (1987) and articles on a range of Roman authors including Lucretius, Caesar, Virgil, Horace, Livy, and Ovid.

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