This study traces the steady decline of classical authority in English literature from the mid-seventeenth century and the role of translation in shifting the emphasis away the classical learning. The author focuses on Virgil, once the most revered of poets but also explores the fate of some of his fellow Ancients. INDICE: Introduction - Virgil in the 1650s and 1660s: Dismantling Augustanism - Virgil in the 1670s and 1680s: The Emperorb s New Clothes - Virgil, 1688-1700: A Watershed of English Literature - Virgil, 1700-1760s: Redefining Neoclassicism - The Legacy: Tradition Metamorphosed - Bibliography -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60676-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 08/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés