Conversing with Antiquity

English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope

By:

David Hopkins

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Classical Presences

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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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date Australia

December 17th, 2009

Author

David Hopkins

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

2 in-text illustrations

Pages

352

Series

Classical Presences

Dimensions

145x223x25

ISBN-13

9780199560349

Product ID

3670901

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