Marco Canani, Ellenismi britannici. L'ellenismo nella poesia, nelle arti e nella cultura britannica dagli augustei al romanticismo. Roma: Aracne, 2014.
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.
http://www.aracneeditrice.it/pdf/9788854870215.pdf
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