David Hopkins

Conversing with Antiquity

English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780199560349
• ISBN-10: 019956034X
• Artikelnr.: 27385632

Autorenporträt

David Hopkins is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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