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Michael Longley: The Helmet

Poem Title

Original Publication

CP Page no

The Helmet

The Ghost Orchid, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995

226

Relationship to Classical text Translation of  Homer’s Iliad  6. 466-9, 471-4 and allusion to 6.476-81

Comment  See

L. P. Hardwick, Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics, no. 33, Reception Studies; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, p.91. 

O. Taplin. ‘Contemporary Poetry and the Classics.’ Classics in Progress. Ed. T.P. Wiseman. Oxford: OUP, 2002, pp.1-19.