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Auteur(s) : Hardie, Philip Russell (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Celestial aspirations [Texte imprimé] : classical impulses in British poetry and art / Philip Hardie
Publication : Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2022
Description matérielle : xi, 361 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection : E. H. Gombrich lecture series
Lien à la collection : E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-345) and indexes
"Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination
-- poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious--displayed a pronounced
fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations
explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations
of these soaring themes -- through philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of
the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of
the ruler. From textual teachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare,
Donne and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio and Thornhill, Philip
Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies and aesthetics of the postclassical
world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent
appear on the grandest scale in Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic built around a Christian
plot of falling and rising, and one of the most intensely classicizing works of English
poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and
Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope
and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for
aspiring to the heavens -- as a reward for political and military achievement on the
one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other.
Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient
visions of time and space in the early modern era."
Sujet(s) : Poésie anglaise -- Influence classique
Poésie anglaise -- Thèmes, motifs
Ciel (religion) -- Dans la littérature
Ascension de l'âme -- Dans la littérature
Art -- Grande-Bretagne -- Influence classique
Art -- Grande-Bretagne -- Thèmes, motifs
Ciel (religion) -- Dans l'art
Ascension de l'âme -- Dans l'art
Indice(s) Dewey :
821.009 382 (23e éd.) = Poésie de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - Thèmes et concepts religieux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691197869. - ISBN 0691197865 (rel.). - ISBN 9780691233307 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb474582688
Notice n° :
FRBNF47458268
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1. Introduction ; 2. Classical antiquity ; 3. Late sixteenth century to the exaltation
of Newton ; 4. Milton ; 5. After Milton ; 6. Visions of apotheosis and glory on
painted ceilings ; Epilogue.
