 | Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English language -- Early modern 1500-1700 -- Diction; English literature -- Classical influences; English literature -- Foreign influences; Great Britain -- Commerce -- Middle East; Mid; Barbarous Antiquity reorients early modern English poetry around England's mercantile and cultural exchanges with the Ottoman Empire, revealing how English poetry renegotiated its relationship to the classical past. Miriam Jacobson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. |
