02685nam 2200625 a 450 991078899360332120230721033645.01-282-48131-297866124813141-4438-1585-3(CKB)3390000000009016(EBL)1114493(OCoLC)816365863(SSID)ssj0000441860(PQKBManifestationID)12127740(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000441860(PQKBWorkID)10444946(PQKB)11436932(MiAaPQ)EBC1114493(Au-PeEL)EBL1114493(CaPaEBR)ebr10655268(CaONFJC)MIL248131(OCoLC)438642644(FINmELB)ELB144097(EXLCZ)99339000000000901620100311d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRising from the ruins[electronic resource] Roman antiquities in neoclassic literature /by Bruce C. SwaffieldNewcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars20091 online resource (188 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-1400-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; INDEXThe 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...Ruins in literatureEnglish poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismNeoclassicism (Literature)Great BritainRomeIn literatureRuins in literature.English poetryHistory and criticism.Neoclassicism (Literature)821.5'0935837Swaffield Bruce C(Bruce Carl)1560119MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788993603321Rising from the ruins3833397UNINA