Pagan epic in contemporary British poetry: Hughes and Logue, Ovid and HomerHolmes, J. (2012) Pagan epic in contemporary British poetry: Hughes and Logue, Ovid and Homer. In: The Epic Expands: Rereading & widening the epic corpus. P.I.E. Peter Lang, Brussels, pp. 343-358. ISBN 9789052018812 Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. Abstract/SummaryIn 'Tales from Ovid' and 'War Music' respectively, Ted Hughes and Christopher Logue turned to classical epic as source material and a model for contemporary poetry. In this essay I consider the different ways in which they work with the original epic poems and how they rework them both textually and generically. In the process, I suggest, Hughes gives his readers an Ovid modeled on his own, vatic conception of Homer, while Logue reworks Homer in a manner that is essentially Ovidian.
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