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Conversing with Antiquity

English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvDavid Hopkins

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Conversing with Antiquity collects, in a substantially revised and updated form, studies, by one of the leading scholars in the field, of the reception of the classics by English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A new Introduction locates the book's investigations within the context of current debates between aestheticians and cultural historians about the reception of classical culture. Where some recent studies have regarded English poets' dealings with the classics as acts of 'appropriation', or even 'colonialization', David Hopkins emphasizes the element of dialogic give-and-take in the relationship between these poets and their classical peers. He argues that, rather than simply 'updating' or 'assimilating' the classics to their own cultural norms, poets such as Abraham Cowley, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Creech, John Milton, John Dryden, and Alexander Pope engaged in trans-historical conversation with Greek and Roman poets, in which self-discovery and self-transcendence were as important as any simple 'accommodation' of ancient texts to modern tastes.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-12-17
Mått145 x 223 x 24 mm
Vikt558 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieClassical Presences
Antal sidor352
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199560349

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Introduction: Reception as Conversation ; 1. 'The English Homer: Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'Neoclassicism' ; 2. Cowley's Horatian Mice ; 3. The English Voices of Lucretius, from Lucy Hutchinson to John Mason Good ; 4. 'If he were living, and an Englishman': Translation Theory in the Age of Dryden ; 5. Dryden and the Tenth Satire of Juvenal ; 6. Dryden's 'Baucis and Philemon' ; 7. Nature's Laws and Man's: Dryden's 'Cinyras and Myrrha' ; 8. Dryden and Ovid's 'Wit out of Season': 'The Twelfth Book of Ovid his Metamorphoses' and 'Ceyx and Alcyone' ; 9. Translation, Metempsychosis, and the Flux of Nature: Dryden's 'Of the Pythagorean Philosophy' ; 10. Some Varieties of Pope's Classicism ; 11. Pope's Trojan Geography ; 12. Colonization, Closure, or Creative Dialogue? The Case of Pope's Iliad