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Rising from the ruins : Roman antiquities in neoclassic literature /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-168) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443815857 1443815853 1282481312 9781282481312 9786612481314 6612481315 |