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Author:   David Hopkins (Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol) ,  Charles Martindale (Emeritus Professor of Latin and Dean of Arts, Dean of Arts, Professor of Latin, University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   1.014kg
ISBN:  

9780198859192

ISBN 10:   0198859198
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   07 May 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors 1: David Hopkins and Charles Martindale: Introduction 2: Penelope Wilson: The Place of Classics in Education and Publishing 3: Charles Martindale: Milton s Classicism 4: Tom Mason: Dryden s Classicism 5: Paul Davis: Latin Epic 6: David Hopkins: Homer 7: David Hopkins: Ovid 8: Dan Hooley: Satire and Epigram 9: Robin Sowerby: Horatianiasm 10: Juan Christian Pellicer: Georgic and Pastoral 11: Fred Parker: Burlesque and Mock Epic 12: Philip Smallwood: Literary Criticism 13: Martin Priestman: Didactic and Scientific Poetry 14: Bruce Redford: The epistolary Tradition 15: Malcolm Kelsall: The Classics and Eighteenth-Century Theatre 16: Jayne Lewis: The Fabular Tradition 17: Penelope Wilson: Women Writers and the Classics 18: David Fairer: Lyric and Elegy 19: Henry Power: The Classics in the English Novel 20: Philip Hicks: The Ancient Historians in England 21: Adam Potkay: Discursive and Philosophical Prose 22: Freya Johnston: Samuel Johnson's Classicism BibliographyVictoria Moul: Index

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a valuable collection of essays that displays the rich mix of creative classicism in eighteenth-century Britain. * Henry Stead, BARS Bulletin *

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David Hopkins is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. His teaching and research interests have largely been focused on English poetry and literary criticism of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (especially Milton, Cowley, Dryden, Pope, and Johnson) and on English/Classical literary relations. Charles Martindale is Emeritus Professor of Latin and Dean of Arts at the University of Bristol. His research interests are wide-ranging, with a particular commitment to cross-disciplinary research. He is interested in Latin poetry (particularly Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Lucan) and its reception, especially in English literature.

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