Reading Poetry, Writing Genre

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This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. ¿Genre¿ has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism, which begins with Aristotle. In a similar vein, recent developments in genre studies have suggested that literary genres are not given or fixed entities, but subjective and unstable (as well as historically situated), and that the reception of genre by both writers and scholars feeds back into the way genre is articulated in specific literary works.<i>Classical scholarship</i>,<i> literary criticism</i>, and<i> genre </i>form a triangle of key concepts for the volume, approached in different ways and with different productive results by contributors from across the disciplines of Classics and E