János Barcsák, Márta Pellérdi

English literature 1660-1900

The Emergence and English Reception of Neo-Classicism

Just as most new developments in the theatre, the principles of neo-classicism were also imported to England from France during the Restoration period. The reverence and study of the poets of classical antiquity was of course not a new phenomenon: turning to the classical models had been the tendency that founded the Renaissance. By the latter half of the 17th century, however, the imitation of classical poetry and drama and the study of Aristotle’s Poetics and of Horace’s Ars Poetica led to the development of a distinct school of thought or literary attitude in France which is generally termed neo-classical. This school in France took its origin from the French Academy set up by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635, found its first great, though controversial, expression in the tragedies of Pierre Corneille, and was perhaps most fully articulated in Nicolas Boileau’s L'Art poétique (1674), a poetic statement of the precepts of neo-classicism in imitation of Horace’s Ars Poetica.

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2018

ISBN: 978 963 454 261 2

A history of the English literature is presented here, with a scope on the years 1660 to 1900. The book is written in three main parts; beginning with the Restoration Period of the 17th century, followed by the first, and second halves of the 18th century. Thus, a sequential development of literary genres is presented, with explorations of the key figures and texts which drove these. The book also synthesises the historical, cultural and sociological background which gave rise to this literature, and allows the reader to effectively contextualise these.

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