Research Interests for N. Gregson Davis

My primary field of research in Classical Studies is ancient Greek and Latin poetry, and my the focus of my published word has been on the interpretation of the poetry of the Augustan poets, Horace, Vergil and Ovid. I also pursue research in contemporary Caribbean Literature, with special emphasis on the Francophone and Anglophone literary traditions (particularly the poetry of the Martinican, Aime Cesaire, and the St.Lucian, Derek Walcott). My chief current research project is a monograph on the interplay of ideas in Vergil's Bucolic verse (Eclogues).

Keywords:

Europe, Caribbean, Classics, Horace, Ovid, Cesaire, Vergil, Walcott

Current projects:

Vergil

Walcott

Antigua

Areas of Interest:

rhetoric
semiotics
Classics
poetry

Recent Publications

1. Davis, G, POLYHYMNIA: THE RHETORIC OF HORATION LYRIC DISCOURSE (January, 2023), pp. 1-282, University of California Press, ISBN 0520070771 (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford.) [abs]
2. Euphrosyne, edited by Davis, G; Burian, P; Clay, JS, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, vol. 370 (2020), de Gruyter
3. Crichlow, MA; Davis, G, Introduction, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 115 no. 3 (July, 2016), pp. 437-440, Duke University Press [doi]
4. Davis, G, Forging a caribbean literary style: Vulgar eloquence and the language of césaire's cahier d'un retour au pays natal, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 115 no. 3 (July, 2016), pp. 457-467, Duke University Press [doi]
5. Davis, G, Journal of a Homecoming, in Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aimé Césaire (2016), Duke University Press (translated by Davis, G.) [abs]