Wit's Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics

by Stephen Orgel

As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners--indeed, the whole national style--through adapting the classics. But how could English literature, art, and culture, become classical, not only in imitating the ancients, but in the sense subsequently applied to music:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253272
• ISBN13: 9780812253276
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"