MARC Record from harvard_bibliographic_metadata

LEADER: 03129cam a2200349 a 4500
001 012204470-3
005 20100317100342.0
008 090624s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
015 $aGBA986048$2bnb
016 7 $a015360997$2Uk
020 $a9780199560349 (hbk.)
020 $a019956034X (hbk.)
035 0 $aocn320803225
040 $aUKM$cUKM$dBTCTA$dBWKUK$dBWK$dYDXCP$dCDX
050 4 $aPR545.C67$bH66 2010
082 04 $a821.309$222
100 1 $aHopkins, David,$d1948-
245 10 $aConversing with antiquity :$bEnglish poets and the classics, from Shakespeare to Pope /$cDavid Hopkins.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2010.
300 $avii, 343 p. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aClassical presences
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : reception as conversation -- The English Homer : Shakespeare, Longinus, and English Neoclassicism -- Cowley's Horation 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.
520 1 $a"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."--Jacket.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$xClassical influences.
650 0 $aClassicism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aClassicism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
988 $a20100217
906 $0OCLC