Interaction in Poetic Imagery

This influential book has made an unusual and original contribution to literary theory through a study of poetic imagery in early Greek lyric and drama and the formulation of a new critical concept, 'interaction'. This reissue contains a substantial new Introduction engaging with critical and scholarly developments since first publication.

M. S. SILK is Emeritus Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature at King's College London (where from 1991 to 1996 he was also Professor of Greek Language and Literature); Adjunct Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and a fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on poetry and drama, the classical tradition, and literary theory and thought (from Homer to Aristophanes, Sophocles to Shakespeare, Aristotle to Nietzsche and Virgil to Ted Hughes).