The classical legacy in Renaissance poetry
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The classical legacy in Renaissance poetry
（Longman medieval and Renaissance library）
Longman, 1994
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Prefectural University of Hiroshima Library and Academic Information Center
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-406) and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780582055483
Description
This study has a two-fold purpose: first, to illustrate
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Epic: Homer's Illiad and Chapman's translation
- Homer and Aristotle - the form of the Homeric poems
- the "Odyssey"
- the "Aeneid"
- Virgilian influence in the early Renaissance
- the Humanist Virgil - Jonson
- Virgil and Dryden. Part 2: Drama: Tragedy
- Seneca and Aeschylus - "Agamemnon"
- Seneca and Sophocles - "Oedipus"
- Seneca and Euripides - "Medea"
- the Senecan Hercules - Stoicism
- the Senecan history play
- Senecan style and transmission
- Greek old comedy
- Aristophanes' "Knights"
- Plato and Aristotle on comedy
- Greek new comedy
- Roman new comedy
- Plautus and Terence compared
- commentators on Terence - classical dramatic thory
- the Humanist Terence
- Jonson's classical practice. Part 3: Lyric: The Greek and the Roman lyric
- Jonson and the classical lyric
- Herrick - Anacreon
- Milton Cowley and Horace
- Marvell's "Horatian Ode"
- Horace and Pindar
- the Cowleyan Pindaric
- two Pindaric odes of Dryden. Part 4: Pastoral and Georgic: Greek beginnings
- Virgilian pastoral
- neo-Latin pastoral - Petrarch and Mantuan
- English pastoral - Spenser
- Milton's pastoral elergy - Marvell
- the Georgic - Hesiod
- Virgil's Georgics in Dryden
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- the happy man of Cowley's Georgic
- Augustan Georgic. Part 5: Ovidian genres: The Epyllion, the love elergy and the heroic epistle
- the "Metamorphoses"
- the love elergy in Marlowe's translation
- the heroic epistle
- the Elizabethan erotic epyllion - Marlowe Chapmen Shakespeare
- the heroic epistle in English - Drayton and Donne
- English love elegies - Donne Carew Rochester. Part 6: Satire: The classical satirists
- definitions and classifications of ancient and Renaissance commentators
- English beginnings - Wyatt
- Elizabethan innovation - Hall
- Jonson and Horace
- Cowley's country mouse
- imitations by Rochester and Oldham
- Dryden's translation of Juvenal.
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ISBN 9780582055490
Description
The formative influence of the Graeco-Roman classics was fundamental to the creation of literary culture in the Renaissance. Through detailed analysis, this book illustrates the classical legacy as it was known in the Renaissance. It then shows how that legacy was received in translation, transformed in imitation and put to creative uses by Renaissance poets working in genres under classical influence. Key Features: Includes detailed analysis of a wide variety of poems from Wyatt to Dryden. Each chapter focuses on one of the major genres: epic, drama, lyric, pastoral and Georgic, Ovidian genres (the epyllion, the love elegy and the heroic epistle), and satire. Presents the classics in Renaissance translations -wherever possible. Shows Renaissance perspectives through translations and through judgements made by Renaissance commentators, critics and the poets themselves. Introduces broader themes such as the dominating influence of Latin, the difficulty of Greek, the reception of classical texts in a prevailing Christian. culture, the theory and practice on imitation and the rules of art.
Readership: Students of English studying the Renaissance and the 17th Century and classical students interested in the classical tradition.
Table of Contents
- Epic
- drama
- lyric
- pastoral and georgic
- Ovidian genres
- satire.
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