Poets of the past Poets of the present

PART ONE. BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY 9 1.1. FOREIGN ENGAGEMENTS 11 Joanna Kruczkowska. “A Sketch for an ‘Idyll’”: Eliot, Auden and Seferis in Cyprus 13 Anna Hewitt. Jo Shapcott’s “Versions” of Rilke: A Tender and Taxing Conversation 31 David Kennedy. “A corpse, a zombie”: Translation and Re-Animated Bodies in Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl 43 Monika Szuba. “Then my tongue was flame”: Myth, Modernism and Metamorphosis in H. D.’s and Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry 53 Małgorzata Grzegorzewska. Speaking with the Dead: Geoffrey Hill Re-Writes Péguy and Re-Reads Eliot 63 David Constantine. “A grace it had, devouring…” – Apparitions of Beauty, Love and Terror in the Poetry of Robert Graves 75 1.2. DOMESTIC RELATIONS 91 Jean Ward. Visiting an Artist: Elizabeth Jennings Contemplates the “Assiduous Craft” of David Jones 93 Maria Fengler. “Nature poets turned into war poets”: Edward Thomas and Michael Longley 115 David Malcolm. Back to Whom / Back to What?: David Constantine’s Something for the Ghosts 131 Vincent Broqua. Caroline Bergvall’s Poetics of the Infrathin 145 Michael Edwards. A Magic, Unquiet Body 159 INTERLUDE 175 Ludmiła Gruszewska Blaim. On Critics and Editors. Or Tracing Eliotesque Spectres 177 PART TWO. THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD 189 Agnieszka Kluba. Does the Prose Poem Exist (in Poland)? 191 Bogusław Grodzki. (Neo)Gnostic Inspirations in the Poetry of Bolesław Leśmian 203 Żaneta Nalewajk. From Allusion to Literary Stylization. Leśmian’s Intertext in Contemporary Polish Poetry 223 Tomasz Swoboda. Meditation is a Meditation is a Meditation: Jacques Roubaud’s Méditations commençantes par les sept premières “Stanzas in Meditation” de Gertrude Stein 237 Roberta Cauchi Santoro. Gruppo 63: The Futurist Legacy in the Italian neoavanguardia 249 Sławomir Studniarz. Ekphrasis in Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “In Goya’s Greatest Scenes” 263