Название: Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art
Автор: Philip Hardie
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691197865
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 79,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

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 imagination―poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious―displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens.