The Augustan art of poetry [[electronic resource] ] : Augustan translation of the classics / / Robin Sowerby |
Autore | Sowerby Robin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
Disciplina | 880.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Classical poetry - Translations into English - History and criticism
Translating and interpreting - Great Britain - History - 18th century Classical poetry - Appreciation - Great Britain Classical languages - Translating into English English poetry - Classical influences |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-151595-7
1-280-87008-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 rhymeThe 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 Rhyme3. 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 SarpedonThe 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465628503321 |
Sowerby Robin | ||
Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Augustan art of poetry [[electronic resource] ] : Augustan translation of the classics / / Robin Sowerby |
Autore | Sowerby Robin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | viii, 368 p. : ill. |
Disciplina | 880.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Classical poetry - Translations into English - History and criticism
Translating and interpreting - Great Britain - History - 18th century Classical poetry - Appreciation - Great Britain Classical languages - Translating into English English poetry - Classical influences |
ISBN |
0191515957
9780191515958 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795717103321 |
Sowerby Robin | ||
Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Augustan art of poetry [[electronic resource] ] : Augustan translation of the classics / / Robin Sowerby |
Autore | Sowerby Robin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | viii, 368 p. : ill. |
Disciplina | 880.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Classical poetry - Translations into English - History and criticism
Translating and interpreting - Great Britain - History - 18th century Classical poetry - Appreciation - Great Britain Classical languages - Translating into English English poetry - Classical influences |
ISBN |
0191515957
9780191515958 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809763503321 |
Sowerby Robin | ||
Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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