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

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Swaffield, Bruce C. (Bruce Carl)

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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443815857
1443815853
1282481312
9781282481312
9786612481314
6612481315

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rising from the ruins.DDC classification:

821.5/0935837 22

LOC classification:

PR508.R84 S93 2009eb

Other classification:

HG 325

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Contents:

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

Summary: 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...

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-168) and index.

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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...

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