John Talbot is Associate Professor of English Literature at Brigham Young University, USA. He publishes widely on classical and English literary relations, poetic form and literary translation. He is the author of The Well-Tempered Tantrum (2004), Rough Translation (2012) and contributed to the multi-volume Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. With Victoria Moul, he is co-editor of C. H. Sisson Reconsidered.

Acknowledgements
Preface

1 Coming Late to Latin: Wilfred Owen, John Hollander
2 'A Marvel of Metrical Disruptions': The Alcaic Strophe Itself
3 'Blossom Again on a Colder Isle': Mary Sidney, Alfred Tennyson
4 'The Same, But Not the Same': Tennyson's In Memoriam Stanza
5 'The Ear Grows Dissatisfied': Robert Bridges, W. H. Auden
Afterword: From Inheritance to Quarry: The Alcaic in Postmodernity
Notes
Index
Bibliography