Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art
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A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists
Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imaginationβpoetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religiousβdisplayed 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 themesβthrough philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler.
From textual reachings 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 Miltonβs 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 heavensβas 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.
Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imaginationβpoetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religiousβdisplayed 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 themesβthrough philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler.
From textual reachings 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 Miltonβs 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 heavensβas 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.
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Philip Hardie is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor Emeritus of Latin at the University of Cambridge. His many books include Rumour and Renown and The Last Trojan Hero.
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