Oxford University Press eBooks· 2016· Book chapter
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
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This volume surveys the reception and transformation of classical literary culture in England up to the Henrician era, covering medieval and early humanist periods.
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- Surveys classical reception in English literature up to the Henrician era.
- Includes chapters on the medieval curriculum, libraries, and mythography.
- Examines reception of specific classical authors (Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius) and traditions.
- Covers medieval English authors Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate.
- Analyzes early English humanism and the classicism of Skelton, Douglas, Wyatt, and Surrey.
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Abstract
Abstract This multi-contributory volume surveys the reception and transformation of classical literary culture in England up to the Henrician era. Context for medieval reception is provided by chapters on the classics in the medieval curriculum, the trivium and quadrivium, medieval libraries, and medieval mythography. Reception of specific classical authors and traditions is surveyed in chapters on Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, the matter of Troy, Boethius, moral philosophy, historiography, biblical epics, John of Salisbury and the twelfth century, and the role of antiquity in medieval alliterative poetry. The medieval section culminates in chapters on Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate. The later period is surveyed in chapters on early English humanism, humanist education and libraries in the Henrician era, and chapters dedicated to the classicism of Skelton, Douglas, Wyatt, and Surrey.
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