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By David Hopkins

ISBN-10: 0198706960

ISBN-13: 9780198706960

ISBN-10: 019956034X

ISBN-13: 9780199560349

Conversing with Antiquity collects, in a considerably revised and up to date shape, reviews of the reception of the classics via English poets of the 17th and eighteenth centuries through one of many best students within the box. a brand new creation locates the book's investigations in the context of present debates among aestheticians and cultural historians concerning the reception of classical tradition. the place a few contemporary reports have looked English poets' dealings with the classics as acts of 'appropriation', or perhaps 'colonialization', David Hopkins emphasizes the part of dialogic give-and-take within the dating among those poets and their classical friends. He argues that, instead of easily 'updating' or 'assimilating' the classics to their very own cultural norms, poets akin to Abraham Cowley, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Creech, John Milton, John Dryden, and Alexander Pope engaged in trans-historical dialog with Greek and Roman poets, during which self-discovery and self-transcendence have been as very important as any uncomplicated 'accommodation' of historical texts to fashionable tastes.

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