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Conversing with Antiquity

By David Hopkins

Conversing with Antiquity

By David Hopkins

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2010-02-28
Publication Date:
2010-02-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019956034X
ISBN13:
9780199560349
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
574 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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