Pro Patria Mori? A Case Study of Classical Reception in the War and War-Adjacent Poetry of Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden, Michael Longley, and Seamus Heaney

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dc.contributor.advisorRussell, Richard Rankin
dc.contributor.authorCope, Sophie
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity Scholars.en_US
dc.contributor.otherBaylor University.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsHonors College - Honors Programen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T15:11:02Z
dc.date.available2023-05-22T15:11:02Z
dc.date.copyright2023
dc.date.issued2023-05-22
dc.description.abstractThe mechanized nature of combat inaugurated during World War I disrupted traditional narratives of heroism and warfare, particularly those derived from ancient epics of war like Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid. This case study examines classical reception in poems by major British and Northern Irish poets who address major combat events in their works: World War I, World War II, the Northern Irish “Troubles,” and the rise of global terrorism. Wilfred Owen’s poetry of war forges a new type of heroism in the face of an anonymous enemy, W. H. Auden repudiates the certainty and simplistic morality of the classical epic, Michael Longley captures intimate moments of sectarian violence within close translations of Homeric scenes, and Seamus Heaney transforms Virgil’s epic of warfare and imperialism into the possibility for hope and reconciliation in a post-ceasefire Northern Ireland. Although these four poets are rarely compared as a group, their combined works articulate a redemptive trajectory in which the epic of war becomes a tool for potential future peace.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2104/12154
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dc.subjectClassical reception.en_US
dc.subjectWar poetry.en_US
dc.titlePro Patria Mori? A Case Study of Classical Reception in the War and War-Adjacent Poetry of Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden, Michael Longley, and Seamus Heaneyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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