Talk:Ovid in the Third Reich

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 08:00, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that scholars disagree on whether "Ovid in the Third Reich" portrays Ovid as an ordinary or unusual person? Source: "They give away Hill's Ovid as a petty bourgeois, 'the little man'..." Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition, p. 106; "To say, as Christopher Ricks has done, that Hill here considers the predicament of those Germans who remained silent ... is not enough and even misleading. ...the uncanny perspective created by its title (not just a German but the elegiac love poet, Ovid, transferred from one kind of totalitarian state to another)... I maintain that through this poem's somewhat ludicrous shifts in perspective—by placing a historically real poet in a historically real setting to which he does not belong..." Passionate Intelligence: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill, p. 106
  • ALT1: ... that the poem "Ovid in the Third Reich" has been described as "a classic reaction to" the Eichmann trial, despite being published before the trial was held? Source: "Eichmann, though his capture was announced on 23 May 1960, did not go on trial until April 1961. ... Geoffrey Hill's 'Ovid in the Third Reich' is a poem that would likewise seem a classic reaction to Eichmann, with its beginning: 'I love my work and children. God / Is distant, difficult.' But if it is, it is a reaction to pre-trial publicity and not the trial itself. Indeed, it can even be read as part of that publicity. 'Ovid in the Third Reich' being published in the New Statesman, primarily a news magazine, on 17 February 1961..." The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter, p. 56–57
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2021 La Paz municipal election

Created by Ffranc (talk). Self-nominated at 12:40, 12 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Ovid in the Third Reich; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• The article is new enough, long enough and neutral. Both hooks are short enough and both contain a pretty interesting fact. Both facts are in the article and cited, but I would recommend using AlT1 because the verification via one specific inline citation is more straightforward. (To make thinks easier, I have simply struck ALT0). QPQ was by the nominator. Modussiccandi (talk) 20:19, 13 March 2023 (UTC)