Conversing with Antiquity
English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 November 2014
- ISBN 9780198706960
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 215x140x19 mm
- Weight 428 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Conversing with Antiquity collects, in a substantially revised and updated form, studies of the reception of the classics by English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by one of the leading scholars in the field. 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.
This is very interesting, and perhaps it must be even more interesting to those of us who feel that "a casual perusal of the Latin" is beyond us. The gloss that Hopkins offers is more than welcome to anyone who is interested in studying these poems.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Reception as Conversation
'The English Homer': Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'Neoclassicism'
Cowley's Horatian Mice
The English Voices of Lucretius, from Lucy Hutchinson to John Mason Good
'If he were living, and an Englishman': Translation Theory in the Age of Dryden
Dryden and the Tenth Satire of Juvenal
Dryden's 'Baucis and Philemon'
Nature's Laws and Man's: Dryden's 'Cinyras and Myrrha'
Dryden and Ovid's 'Wit out of Season': 'The Twelfth Book of Ovid his Metamorphoses' and 'Ceyx and Alcyone'
Translation, Metempsychosis, and the Flux of Nature: Dryden's 'Of the Pythagorean Philosophy'
Some Varieties of Pope's Classicism
Pope's Trojan Geography
Colonization, Closure, or Creative Dialogue? The Case of Pope's Iliad
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