Addison's Forgotten Poetic Response to <i>Paradise Lost</i>: “Milton's Stile Imitated, in a Translation of a Story out of the Third <i>Aeneid</i>” (1704): an Edited Text with Annotation and Commentary

Davis, Paul

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“…The change in Homer's status may have meant that Virgil did not enjoy as complete a supremacy in the eighteenth century as previously, but he remained a highly influential figure. There have been a number of important correctives to Tanya Caldwell's claim that Virgil experienced a near‐terminal decline in status across the period (2008) thanks to reminders of the continued relevance to poets of the ‘Virgilian career’ (Potkay, 2014), and the translations of Virgil that saw Dryden's 1697 Works of Virgil as a model to imitate and to avoid (Davis, 2015; Hardie, 2018; Widmer, 2017). Several works have addressed the connections between Virgil and Jacobitism (McElduff, 2011; Calvert, 2017; Horejsi, 2019, pp.…”

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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century

Calvert

2022

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This article provides a survey of the scholarship on classical literature and eighteenth-century British literary culture that has appeared since 2010. Drawing on general overviews of the period, as well as more specific work on translation and classical reception, it focuses on the following five subject-areas: non-elite readers of classical literature; the status of Homeric epic; the relationship between classical literature, Celticism and the Gothic; Horatianism; georgic poetry. The article then addresses the classical authors, texts and genres from outside of these areas which have also recently received scholarly attention, and identifies further topics of enquiry which require examining to provide the fullest picture of the eighteenth century's engagement with the literature of antiquity.

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