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Ebook: Ellenismi britannici L’ellenismo nella poesia, nelle arti e nella cultura britannica dagli augustei al romanticismo
Author: Marco Canani
- Genre: Literature
- Tags: English literature, English Romanticism, Romanticism, Romantic poetry, Alexander Pope, George Gordon Byron, Byron, Lord Byron, Shelley, Percy Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Grand Tour, museum studies, British Museum, Elgin Marbles, Lord Elgin, Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Pater, Walter Pater, Pope, Greek literature, Classical literature, classicism, neoclassicism, neo-classicism
- Series: Riverrun 17
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Aracne
- City: Roma
- Language: Italian
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Il volume esamina il recupero dell’eredità ellenica che ha interessato la letteratura, l’arte e la cultura britanniche dall’età augustea al romanticismo. Le osservazioni di Virginia Woolf, secondo cui «it is to the Greeks that we turn when we are sick of the vagueness, of the confusion, of the Christianity and its consolations, of our own age» sono il punto di partenza di un’analisi delle motivazioni che portano la poesia di Alexander Pope, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley e John Keats, ma anche la pittura di Benjamin West, Gavin Hamilton e George Frederic Watts a riappropriarsi del patrimonio culturale dell’antica Grecia. Accompagnando alla riflessione critica l’analisi testuale, lo studio disegna le origini dei diversi “ellenismi” britannici mettendone in luce la natura discorsiva e metastorica.
This book explores the British reception of Hellenism from the Augustan Age to the Romantics.Its main focus lies on the poetry of Alexander Pope, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats, along with the paintings of Benjamin West, Gavin Hamilton, and George Frederic Watts.The constant longing for a model of ideal perfection, opposed to the idiosyncrasies of the present, suggests that British "Hellenisms" should be read in meta-historical and meta-literary terms.By investigating the influence of Ancient Greek culture on eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature and art in England and Scotland, this study offers interesting insights into the cyclical re-appropriation of the discourses of Hellenism in Britain.
This book explores the British reception of Hellenism from the Augustan Age to the Romantics.Its main focus lies on the poetry of Alexander Pope, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats, along with the paintings of Benjamin West, Gavin Hamilton, and George Frederic Watts.The constant longing for a model of ideal perfection, opposed to the idiosyncrasies of the present, suggests that British "Hellenisms" should be read in meta-historical and meta-literary terms.By investigating the influence of Ancient Greek culture on eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature and art in England and Scotland, this study offers interesting insights into the cyclical re-appropriation of the discourses of Hellenism in Britain.
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