University of St Andrews

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SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 1

Planned timetable: TBC

Ted Hughes, one of the most controversial and distinctive English poets of the twentieth century, engaged with classical literature and culture in a variety of ways, at various stages in his career. This included versions of dramas by Seneca, Aeschylus and Euripides, his Tales from Ovid, appropriation of form and details from Greco-Roman mythology, laureate and elegiac poetry, and combative engagement with Socratic rationalism. This module will consider this expansive record of classical material and seek to evaluate the role of classics in Hughes's oeuvre and Hughes's place in literary reception of the classics in the second half of the twentieth century.

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