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

• Autore: Swaffield Bruce C (Bruce Carl)
• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.5'0935837
• Soggetto topico: Ruins in literature; English poetry - 18th century - History and criticism; Neoclassicism (Literature) - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Rome In literature
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Rising from the ruins
• ISBN: 1-282-48131-2; 9786612481314; 1-4438-1585-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812281903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II