LEADER 04757nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910960380803321 005 20251116152933.0 010 0 $a0191515957 010 0 $a9780191515958 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7035382 035 $a(CKB)24235055200041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC422744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL422744 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10177884 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL87008 035 $a(OCoLC)252675975 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7035382 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235055200041 100 $a20051012d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Augustan art of poetry $eAugustan translation of the classics /$fRobin Sowerby 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford, England ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006 215 $aviii, 368 p. $cill. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [353]-360) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- A Note on the Texts -- Introduction -- 1. The Art of Poetry: Vida to Pope -- The Education of the Poet: Setting the Cultural Scene -- The Virgilian Ars: Disposition of the Poet's Material -- The rules of art and poetic inspiration -- Disposition: clarity, variety, and unity -- Decorum, nature, and verisimilitude -- The comparison of Virgil and Homer -- The Virgilian Ars: Language and Style -- The figures -- Poetic diction -- Imitative harmony -- Conclusion to Vida -- 2. The Augustan Ideal: Rhyme and Refinement -- Early English Classicism -- Humanist beginnings -- The early argument over rhyme -- The closed couplet: English and Latin -- The Latin elegiac couplet -- Early English couplets -- The poetic ideal of Augustan Rome -- The Early Augustan Aesthetic in English -- Waller and Denham: sweetness and strength -- Waller, Denham, and Dryden -- Vigour refined -- The Full Augustan Aesthetic -- Dryden and Denham on the death of Priam compared -- Ornament of words: poetic diction -- How Dryden's Virgil represents the Latin ideal -- Mastery of the Medium: The Continuing Debate about Rhyme -- Dryden and Addison: rhyme versus blank verse -- Dryden and Milton -- Appendix: The Continuing Debate about Rhyme -- 3. Augustan Translation of Silver Latin -- Dryden's Translation of Persius and Juvenal: Dryden's Critical Assessment -- Dryden's Persius -- The method and purpose of Dryden in translation -- Dryden's Juvenal -- Rowe's Lucan -- Introduction: Augustan regularization of Lucan -- Comparison with Marlowe: limitations -- Augustan strengths: Johnsonian virtues -- Liberty and tyranny: the moral argument -- The effectiveness of the mature Augustan couplet -- Pope's Statius -- The rarefied style -- Heightening -- Augustan virtues -- 4. Augustan Homer -- Heroic Beginnings: The Episode of Sarpedon. 327 $aThe Main Fable: The Anger of Achilles -- The Art of Pope's Homer -- Invention and judgement -- Imitation and refinement: tradition and method -- Concentration and unity -- The heightened style -- The final polish: the labour of the file -- The challenge of the Odyssey -- Beginnings -- 'Proportioning the style': the plain and the natural -- Painting the manners: the 'just moral' -- Painting the manners: 'partly in the nature of a comedy' -- Reaction -- Epilogue: Augustans and Moderns -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. 330 $aThe first comparative study of its kind, The Augustan Art of Poetry uses translations to explore the artistic influence of the Roman poetry of the Augustan age upon English neoclassical poetry. The book foregrounds the artistry of central texts such as Dryden's translation of Virgil and Pope's Homer. Comparisons are also made with modern versions. 606 $aClassical poetry$xTranslations into English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTranslating and interpreting$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aClassical poetry$xAppreciation$zGreat Britain 606 $aClassical languages$xTranslating into English 606 $aEnglish poetry$xClassical influences 615 0$aClassical poetry$xTranslations into English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTranslating and interpreting$xHistory 615 0$aClassical poetry$xAppreciation 615 0$aClassical languages$xTranslating into English. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xClassical influences. 676 $a880.09 700 $aSowerby$b Robin$0626962 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910960380803321 996 $aThe Augustan art of poetry$94463729 997 $aUNINA