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Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art by Hardie
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- Subject Area
- Poetry
- Subject
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- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0691197865
ISBN-13
9780691197869
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6050082726
Product Key Features
Book Title
Celestial Aspirations : Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Ancient & Classical, Europe / Great Britain / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, History
Book Series
E. H. Gombrich Lecture Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
28.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-949436
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20221027
Reviews
"[Hardie's] engagement with early modern British literature and art is impressive. Scholarly yet approachable." ---P. E. Ojennus, Choice, "A sublime intellectual journey that holds appeal to a wide range of audiences" ---Bobby Xinyue, Times Literary Supplement
Series Volume Number
5
Dewey Decimal
821.009/3823624
Synopsis
A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination--poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious--displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations of these soaring themes--through philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler. From textual reachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio and Thornhill, Philip Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies and aesthetics of the postclassical world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent appear on the grandest scale in Milton's Paradise Lost , an epic built around a Christian plot of falling and rising, and one of the most intensely classicizing works of English poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for aspiring to the heavens--as a reward for political and military achievement on the one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other. Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient visions of time and space in the early modern era., A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination -- poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious--displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations of these soaring themes--through philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler.From textual reachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio and Thornhill, Philip Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies and aesthetics of the postclassical world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent appear on the grandest scale in Milton's Paradise Lost , an epic built around a Christian plot of falling and rising, and one of the most intensely classicizing works of English poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for aspiring to the heavens--as a reward for political and military achievement on the one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other. Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient visions of time and space in the early modern era.
LC Classification Number
PR508.C68
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