Rising from the Ruins : Roman Antiquities in Neoclassic Literature
ISBN: 9781443815857
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

The neoclassic tendency to write about the ruins of Rome was both an attempt to recapture the grandeur of the OC golden ageOCO of man as well as a lament for the passing of a great civilization. John Dyer, who wrote The Ruins of Rome in 1740, was largely responsible for the eighteenth-century revival of a unique subgenre of landscape poetry dealing with ruins of the ancient world. Few poems about the ruins had been written since Antiquit(r)s de Rome in 1558 by Joachim Du Bellay. Dyer was one of f..."


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