Tony Harrison: Wordlists I,II,III

Length / Form Sixteen-line sonnet

Comment References to ‘The Classics/RI master’ (i.e. he teaches both Classics and RI or ‘Religious Instruction’) – perhaps the same figure referred to in ‘Doodlebugs’ (From ‘The School of Eloquence’ and Other Poems, 1978). ‘L & S dead Latin’ (i.e. Lewis & Short’s Latin dictionary) and ‘L & S dead Greek’ (Liddell & Scott’s Greek lexicon).