C. H. Sisson Reconsidered

Victoria Moul is Reader in Early Modern Latin and English at University College London, UK.John Talbot is Associate Professor of English Literature at Brigham Young University, USA.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Victoria Moul and John Talbot).- Chapter 2. Sisson, Aeneid 6, and Roman Poems9 ( Charlie Louth).- Chapter 3. ‘Young men would disconcertingly spring from perambulators’: Sisson’s English atoms (N. J. Lowe) .- Chapter 4. C. H. Sisson in Exile; Versions and Perversions of Ovid’s Tristia (Christopher Trinacty) .-Chapter 5. ‘Magnificent Anachronism’: Sisson in the Seventeenth-Century (Hannah Crawforth) .- Chapter 6. Thoughts on the Churchyard and the Fortunes of the Baroque from Balde and Gryphius to C. H. Sisson (Kenneth Haynes) .- Chapter 7. Marvell and Sisson at the Intersection of Times (John Talbot) .-Chapter 8. ‘Poet of church and state’: C. H. Sisson and the Church of England (Peter Webster) .- Chapter 9. One Eye on the Archive: C. H. Sisson’s Indian Writings (Henry King) .- Chapter 10. ‘Here lies a civil servant’: C. H. Sisson and the Possibility of Honesty (Alex Wylie) .- Chapter 11. Identity and incarnation in the poetry of C. H. Sisson (Victoria Moul) .- Afterword: Tutelary Spirit (Michael Schmidt).