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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788993603321

Autore

Swaffield Bruce C (Bruce Carl)

Titolo

Rising from the ruins [[electronic resource] ] : Roman antiquities in neoclassic literature / / by Bruce C. Swaffield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009

ISBN

1-282-48131-2

9786612481314

1-4438-1585-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

821.5'0935837

Soggetti

Ruins in literature

English poetry - 18th century - History and criticism

Neoclassicism (Literature) - Great Britain

Rome In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; APPENDIX E; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The neoclassic tendency to write about the ruins of Rome was both an attempt to recapture the grandeur of the "golden age" of man as well as a lament for the passing of a great civilization. John Dyer, who wrote The Ruins of Rome in 1740, was largely responsible for the eighteenth-century revival of a unique sub-genre of landscape poetry dealing with ruins of the ancient world. Few poems about the ruins had been written since Antiquités de Rome in 1558 by Joachim Du Bellay. Dyer was one of f...