Michael Longley: The Helmet

*Poem Title*	*Original Publication*	CP Page no
*The Helmet*	The Ghost Orchid, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995	226

Relationship to Classical text Translation of Homer’s Iliad 6. 466-9, 471-4 and allusion to 6.476-81

Comment See

L. P. Hardwick, Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics, no. 33, Reception Studies; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, p.91.

O. Taplin. ‘Contemporary Poetry and the Classics.’ Classics in Progress. Ed. T.P. Wiseman. Oxford: OUP, 2002, pp.1-19.

Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English from c.1970