Conversing With Antiquity - English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope

Zusatztext Throughout, Hopkins' chapters present a wonderful array of examples that include abundant references Informationen zum Autor David Hopkins is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol. Klappentext A selection of previously published articles, with a new Introduction, exploring the interaction between English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and those of ancient Greece and Rome, and emphasizing the element of exchange and dialogue between the two. Zusammenfassung A selection of previously published articles, with a new Introduction, exploring the interaction between English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and those of ancient Greece and Rome, and emphasizing the element of exchange and dialogue between the two. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: David Hopkins, David (Emeritus Professor of English Literature Hopkins
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2009
• EAN: 9780199560349
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956034-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Classical Presences; Classical Presences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean