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Author:   David Hopkins (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Bristol)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.428kg
ISBN:  

9780198706960

ISBN 10:   0198706960
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   27 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Reception as Conversation 1: 'The English Homer': Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'Neoclassicism' 2: Cowley's Horatian Mice 3: The English Voices of Lucretius, from Lucy Hutchinson to John Mason Good 4: 'If he were living, and an Englishman': Translation Theory in the Age of Dryden 5: Dryden and the Tenth Satire of Juvenal 6: Dryden's 'Baucis and Philemon' 7: Nature's Laws and Man's: Dryden's 'Cinyras and Myrrha' 8: Dryden and Ovid's 'Wit out of Season': 'The Twelfth Book of Ovid his Metamorphoses' and 'Ceyx and Alcyone' 9: Translation, Metempsychosis, and the Flux of Nature: Dryden's 'Of the Pythagorean Philosophy' 10: Some Varieties of Pope's Classicism 11: Pope's Trojan Geography 12: Colonization, Closure, or Creative Dialogue? The Case of Pope's Iliad Bibliography

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Throughout, Hopkins' chapters present a wonderful array of examples that include abundant references. Claudia Olk, Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

`Throughout, Hopkins' chapters present a wonderful array of examples that include abundant references.' Claudia Olk, Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

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David Hopkins is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol.

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