Overview

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.

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Author:   David Hopkins (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9780199560349

ISBN 10:   019956034
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   17 December 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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Throughout, Hopkins' chapters present a wonderful array of example that include abundant references Claudia Olk, Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

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

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