Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century (Classical Presences) 0198875940, 9780198875949

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century (Classical Presences) 0198875940, 9780198875949

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity

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Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) 9780198738053, 0198738056

The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, wit

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Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century (Classical Presences) 019286856X, 9780192868565

In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the lo

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Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century (Classical Presences) 019286856X, 9780192868565

In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the lo

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Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198814122, 0198814127

The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic - a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations - has lon

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The Classical Model: Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France 9780801432125, 080143212X

Literature has its own strategies for ordering information. In this elegant and insightful book about the formation of k

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The Classical Model: Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France 9781501738982

She offers close readings of works by Rotrou, Corneille, Racine, Moli're, La Rochefoucauld, and Lafayette, as well

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The Seventeenth Century

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Lucretius and the Early Modern (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198713845, 0198713843

The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem

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Spain in the Seventeenth Century 9780582072343, 0582072344

At the beginning of the seventeenth century Spain was the foremost power in Europe. Yet during the hundred years that fo

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