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A recurring element of the landscape of Tony Harrison's poetry is the sculpted image, especially the classical artistic figure, which still haunts the modern world's visual field – the realistic human form metamorphosed into metal, stone or timber. This essay identifies some of the aesthetic and political functions which they fulfil in a selection of his works, starting from his documented fascination with Nietzsche's statement that tragic poetry, like the tragic mask, or Perseus' mirror, allows humans to look at intolerable suffering entailed by the human predicament without being turned into stone. The last part of the essay stresses Harrison's portrayal of the processes of flux, change and metamorphosis of matter, processes which produce or are symbolised by anthropomorphic artefacts (above all the moment when the miners are melted down in the furnace to produce the statue of Prometheus) and argues that these crucial moments in his works are an expression both of his fascination with the visual as well as the literary forms inherited from classical antiquity, and of his fundamentally materialist philosophical outlook. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Antanas Baranauskas is known as the author of the poem Anyščų šilelis. The second most important work in the chronology of Lithuanian literature, it is traditionally considered the first Romantic poem in that literature. This characterization dates from the fourth decade of the twentieth century, but was not completely accepted until the Soviet era. This article reconstructs the understanding of the concept of Romanticism during Baranauskas's lifetime and evaluates the poem from the point of view of the polemics between Romanticism and classicism. Both Kazimierz Brodziński, an advocate of Romanticism, and Jan Śniadecki, an advocate of classicism, would have seen Anyščų šilelis as an example of classical poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article critiques the poems "Credo" and "Epilogue to a Book of Poems" by Mihály Babits. Particular focus is given to the roles of classicism and neoclassicism in Babits' works. According to the author, Babits believed that modernity involved a thorough understanding of the past, including classic traditions. It is suggested that neoclassicism was his response to social and political changes in the 1920s and 1930s. Other topics include Babits' education and the avant-garde movement.

The article offers criticism on the poem "Ode to Psyche," by John Keats. The author discusses secularism and criticism of Christianity in Keats's work and analyzes the work in relation to the idea of the "genealogy of the secular." Specific topics include the idea of orthodoxy in the poem, the idea of Cockney classicism, and Keats's poem "The Fall of Hyperion." Also discussed are botanical, classical Greek, and natural historical themes in the poem.

Reviews the book "Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge," by J. Douglas Kneale.

The article offers criticism on the poem "To Sir Horage Vere" by English dramatist Benjamin Jonson. The author looks at Roman virtues, Christian and Pagan themes, and classicism in Jonson's poetry. The article also discusses philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, Renaissance Humanism, and stoicism in Jonson's poetry.

The article discusses 20th-century English author and poet C. H. Sisson's preservation of classicism in his writings. Topics addressed include positive reception of Sisson's "Collected Poems and Selected Translations," an overview of the inspiration derived from Augustan models, and Sisson's respect for the English tradition and its idea of the poet.

The article reviews the book "Friedrich Nietzsche and Weimar Classicism," by Paul Bishop and R.H. Stephenson.

The article reviews the book "Afro-Greeks: Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century," by E. Greenwood, part of the Classical Presences series.

The article reviews the book "Le classicisme," by Suzanne Guellouz.

Reviews the book "Erfahrung und Überlieferung: Festschrift for C. P. Magill," edited by Hinrich Siefken and Alan Robinson.

Reviews the book 'Classicism in the Playhouse, 1671-1779,' by Dane Fransworth Smith.

Reviews the book 'The Songs of the Kings,' by Barry Unsworth.