>Contemporary poets who use the Classics in their creative work would be Ann >Carson, Susan Mitchell, especially in her most recent book, EROTIKON >(HarperCollins, 2000), Jorie Graham, Alice Fulton, Ann Lauterbach. I can't >think of any writers of short fiction, but they must be out there.
An outstanding example is Guy Davenport, as evidenced by the title of his early collection _Eclogues_ (though the longest story, "On Some Lines of Virgil" actually has more to do with Montaigne). ++++++++++++++++++++++ Gregory Hays Dept. of Classics, University of Virginia 401 Cabell Hall P.O. Box 400788 Charlottesville, VA 22904 http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bgh2n/home.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
