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Virgil Made English: The Decline of Classical Authority Book

Virgil Made English : Hardback : Palgrave Macmillan : 9780230606760 : 0230606768 : 08 Jan 2009 : This study traces the steady decline of classical authority in English literature from the mid-seventeenth century and the role of translation in shifting the emphasis away the classical learning. The author focuses on Virgil, once the most revered of poets but also explores the fate of some of his fellow Ancients.Read More

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    Virgil Made English traces Virgil’s fate from the Interregnum through mid-eighteenth-century England and beyond by examining translations, imitations, adaptations, and discussions of the poet and some of his fellow Ancients. Along the way, it examines English and French neoclassical theorists, demonstrating the unacknowledged gap between theory and practice in this period. The central argument here concerns the decline in influence and authority of Virgil and the Ancients in this “neoclassical” period. The study also shows how literary features and notions about literature’s historical and social function that are associated with the eighteenth century can be traced back through mid-seventeenth century rejection of classical precepts and examples.

  • 0230606768
  • 9780230606760
  • Tanya M. Caldwell
  • 8 January 2009
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 264
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