After holding posts at the universities of Reading, Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, and Royal Holloway, Edith Hall took up a Chair in Classics at King's College London in 2012. She has published more than twenty-five books on ancient Greek and Roman culture and their continuing role in culture since the Renaissance. She is Co-Founder of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate from Athens University in 2017.

• List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsEditor's Introduction by Edith HallPart I: Harrison's Example1: Blake Morrison: Harrison as Elegist2: Simon Armitage: Untitled Talk3: Lee Hall: The Man Who Came to Read the Metre4: Jo Balmer: Lost in the Original: Harrison as a Classicist PoetPart II: Harrison's Poems5: Claire Armitstead: Tony Harrison and the Guardian6: Sandie Byrne: Metre and Memory7: Oliver Taplin: Tony Harrison's Polygonal Ode to DelphiPart III: Harrison's Theatre8: Rachel Bower: Nigeria, Masque, and Masks9: Hallie Marshall: The Early Years at the National Theatre: Harrison's Molie?re and Racine10: Fiona Macintosh: Harrison as Scholar-Poet of the Theatre11: Edith Hall: Verbal and Visual Witnessing: Tony Harrison's EuripidesPart IV: Harrison's France and Italy12: Christine Regan: 'v.' Revisited: Harrison, Rimbaud, and the French Radical Tradition13: Cécile Marshall: The Translation and Reception of Harrison's Poetry in France14: Giovanni Greco: Wine and Poetry: Translating Tony Harrison in ItalyPart V: Harrison's Film Poetry15: Peter Symes: A Poet behind the Camera16: Antony Rowland: Modernism and the 'Double Consciousness' of Myth in Tony Harrison's Poems and Metamorpheus17: Henry SteadAfterword: 'For Tony at 80' A Poem by Sir Richard EyreBibliographyIndex

Their essays combine to form a remarkable celebration of the integrity, depth, learning, intelligence and politics of Britain's most important living poet: the bard of Leeds.

After holding posts at the universities of Reading, Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, and Royal Holloway, Edith Hall took up a Chair in Classics at King's College London in 2012. She has published more than twenty-five books on ancient Greek and Roman culture and their continuing role in culture since the Renaissance. She is Co-Founder of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate from Athens University in 2017.

• List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsEditor's Introduction by Edith HallPart I: Harrison's Example1: Blake Morrison: Harrison as Elegist2: Simon Armitage: Untitled Talk3: Lee Hall: The Man Who Came to Read the Metre4: Jo Balmer: Lost in the Original: Harrison as a Classicist PoetPart II: Harrison's Poems5: Claire Armitstead: Tony Harrison and the Guardian6: Sandie Byrne: Metre and Memory7: Oliver Taplin: Tony Harrison's Polygonal Ode to DelphiPart III: Harrison's Theatre8: Rachel Bower: Nigeria, Masque, and Masks9: Hallie Marshall: The Early Years at the National Theatre: Harrison's Molie?re and Racine10: Fiona Macintosh: Harrison as Scholar-Poet of the Theatre11: Edith Hall: Verbal and Visual Witnessing: Tony Harrison's EuripidesPart IV: Harrison's France and Italy12: Christine Regan: 'v.' Revisited: Harrison, Rimbaud, and the French Radical Tradition13: Cécile Marshall: The Translation and Reception of Harrison's Poetry in France14: Giovanni Greco: Wine and Poetry: Translating Tony Harrison in ItalyPart V: Harrison's Film Poetry15: Peter Symes: A Poet behind the Camera16: Antony Rowland: Modernism and the 'Double Consciousness' of Myth in Tony Harrison's Poems and Metamorpheus17: Henry SteadAfterword: 'For Tony at 80' A Poem by Sir Richard EyreBibliographyIndex

Their essays combine to form a remarkable celebration of the integrity, depth, learning, intelligence and politics of Britain's most important living poet: the bard of Leeds.

After holding posts at the universities of Reading, Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, and Royal Holloway, Edith Hall took up a Chair in Classics at King's College London in 2012. She has published more than twenty-five books on ancient Greek and Roman culture and their continuing role in culture since the Renaissance. She is Co-Founder of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate from Athens University in 2017.

• List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsEditor's Introduction by Edith HallPart I: Harrison's Example1: Blake Morrison: Harrison as Elegist2: Simon Armitage: Untitled Talk3: Lee Hall: The Man Who Came to Read the Metre4: Jo Balmer: Lost in the Original: Harrison as a Classicist PoetPart II: Harrison's Poems5: Claire Armitstead: Tony Harrison and the Guardian6: Sandie Byrne: Metre and Memory7: Oliver Taplin: Tony Harrison's Polygonal Ode to DelphiPart III: Harrison's Theatre8: Rachel Bower: Nigeria, Masque, and Masks9: Hallie Marshall: The Early Years at the National Theatre: Harrison's Molie?re and Racine10: Fiona Macintosh: Harrison as Scholar-Poet of the Theatre11: Edith Hall: Verbal and Visual Witnessing: Tony Harrison's EuripidesPart IV: Harrison's France and Italy12: Christine Regan: 'v.' Revisited: Harrison, Rimbaud, and the French Radical Tradition13: Cécile Marshall: The Translation and Reception of Harrison's Poetry in France14: Giovanni Greco: Wine and Poetry: Translating Tony Harrison in ItalyPart V: Harrison's Film Poetry15: Peter Symes: A Poet behind the Camera16: Antony Rowland: Modernism and the 'Double Consciousness' of Myth in Tony Harrison's Poems and Metamorpheus17: Henry SteadAfterword: 'For Tony at 80' A Poem by Sir Richard EyreBibliographyIndex

Their essays combine to form a remarkable celebration of the integrity, depth, learning, intelligence and politics of Britain's most important living poet: the bard of Leeds.