Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

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 Open University Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English 1970-2005 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.Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He has written extensively on Latin literature and its reception, including neo-Latin poetry, and has been a visiting professor in France, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Israel, the US and New Zealand.Elizabeth Vandiver is the Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Emerita, at Whitman College. She also held visiting professorships at Northwestern University and at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. She has published widely on classical receptions in English literature of the 1910s and 1920s, especially in First World War poetry and in early Modernism.

• Lorna Hardwick: Introduction1: Stephen Harrison: Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)2: Stephen Harrison: Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)3: Lorna Hardwick: Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)4: Elizabeth Vandiver: Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)