Conversing with Antiquity: English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope

by David Hopkins and David Hopkins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019956034X
• ISBN13: 9780199560349
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"