The Classical Element in Victorian Verse

2003 ◽  
pp. 215-239
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Author(s):  
Luis Unceta Gómez

Este trabajo aborda el empleo del elemento clásico en la obra poética de tres autores líricos del siglo XVIII español poco conocidos: el conde de Noroña, José de Vargas y Ponce y José María Vaca de Guzmán y Manrique. Todos ellos comparten un amplio conocimiento de la Antigüedad grecorromana y, además, todos ellos, de acuerdo con la actitud de su época hacia la herencia clásica, hacen un uso ilustrado de la herencia clásica, con un evidente afán ideológico y elitista, por encima del interés estrictamente estético o artístico.PALABRAS CLAVEPoesía lírica, siglo XVIII, tradición clásica. This paper délas with the use of classical element in the poetic works of three scarcely known Spanish lyrical poets who composed their work in the 18thcentury: the Count ofNoroña, José de Vargas y Ponce, and José María Vaca de Guzmán y Manrique. The three of them share an accurate knowledge of the Greco-Roman Antiquity and, in adittion, all of them, according to the attitude of their time towards the classical heritage, make use of the Classical Tradition in an illustrated way, with an ideological and elitist aim, rather than with an esthetic or an artistic one.KEYWORDSLyrical poetry, 18th century, classical tradition.


Author(s):  
Simon Goldhill

This chapter examines how Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck's opera reforms responded to Victorian culture to become the revolutionary icons his contemporaries believed them to be. Gluck was music tutor to Marie Antoinette in Vienna and, after her marriage to Louis XVI, followed her to Paris, where he was a regular at Versailles. He died two years before the Revolution broke out. His music, according to Jean-Baptiste Leclerc, led to the shattering of the throne of France. The chapter considers formal elements of composition as well as frames of comprehension: the role of classicism in the critical understanding of theater; the role of dance in opera; the role of the chorus as a specifically classical element in modern opera. It also analyzes the differences between Vienna and Paris and London as sites for Gluck's operatic success and failure—within the incipient but self-conscious nationalism of the era.


1896 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
W. C. Lawton
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1929 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Charles Knapp
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1925 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Oliver L. Spaulding,
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PMLA ◽  
1898 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-249
Author(s):  
Felix E. Schelling

“The words, classical and romantic, although, like many-other critical expressions, sometimes abused by those who have understood them vaguely or too absolutely, yet define two real tendencies in the history of art and literature. The ‘classic’ comes to us out of the cool and quiet of other times, as the measure of what a long experience has shown will at least never displease us. And in the classical literature of Greece and Rome, as in the classics of the last century, the essentially classical element is that quality of order in beauty, which they possess, indeed, to a pre-eminent degree. It is the addition of strangeness to beauty, that constitutes the romantic character in art; and the desire of beauty being a fixed element in every artistic organisation, it is the addition of curiosity to this desire of beauty that constitutes the romantic temper.”


1910 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Grace Harriet Macurdy
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