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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Adam Potkay My design in this essay is twofold: first, I show the underappreciated poetic mastery of Dryden’s Lucretius translations. Second, I connect what Dryden does at the level of the poetic line with how he subtly refashions Epicurean philosophy for his era. Dryden’s Lucretius is less...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 133–137.
Published: 01 September 2012
... will in one of
the major texts of the Lucretian/Epicurean revival of the later seventeenth-
century, Thomas Creech’s 1682 translation of Lucretius’ first-century BC poem,
De rerum natura. Lucretius, Kramnick shows, attempts to affirm an atomistic
materialism by which consciousness emerges from...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 104–109.
Published: 01 September 2011
... d’une antiquité fantasmée” (147). What her study
shows most compellingly, however, is how these phantasmal antiquities never
cease to haunt the modern; indeed, the proliferating eroticized materialisms
of the French Enlightenment owe a debt not just to Ovid but to Lucretius. In
this sense...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 148–152.
Published: 01 January 2009
... by
neo-Epicurean and Lucretian philosophy, most notably by Lucretius’s affir-
mation, in De rerum natura, of the critical role poetry plays in developing the
reader’s ability to understand the natural world. According to Lucretius, volup-
tuous forms pleased and affected the reader; they transformed...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (3): 181–188.
Published: 01 September 2008
...,
Godolphin, Sidney, 1st Earl of, 50, 58, 59, 14, 22, 23, 25, 26, 32, 33, 39, 42, 43, 47,
65, 67 48, 50, 53, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 74, 75, 82,
Godolphin, Lady Henrietta, 67 85; compared with Lucretius, 62
Goths, 2, 3, 42 Hospitality...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 76–79.
Published: 01 September 2015
... have been exciting to compare Longinus with Lucretius, and
perhaps to have engaged with Catherine Wilson’s recent history of the recep-
tion of Epicureanism, in which she suggests, with considerable plausibility,
that the Critique of Judgment was a worried attempt to deal with the currency...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 154–157.
Published: 01 April 2012
... a strong presence too, dis-
seminated through Pierre Gassendi’s Syntagma philosophiae Epicuri (1649) and
through editions of Lucretius’s De rerum natura. Epicureanism was particularly
important for those who were skeptical of political authority and had a major
impact on Enlightenment natural...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 83–87.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of poetry. “The Lady's Dressing Room,” in Cook's reading, is a critique of the creative process that draws on Lucretius's De Rerum Natura (259–60). In his later years especially, Cook argues, Swift created “multigeneric assault[s]” on his poetical-political adversaries (231). He also, counterintuitively...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 158–178.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Arthur (1697); Eliza (1705); and Alfred (1723). Blackmore’s
most acclaimed poem appeared in 1712: Creation: a Philosophical Poem. Dem-
onstrating the Existence and Providence of a God, a Miltonic riposte to the
fashionable atomism of Lucretius, albeit in Blackmore’s customary cou-
plets; it went...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 114–123.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... Blackwell’s collection raises the
question about how an apparently minor genre can illuminate the nature of
narrative, as well as “the nature of things,” as Lucretius might have it. Indeed,
the it-narrative constitutes a pivotal development in ideas about things and
narrative in eighteenth-century...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 252–270.
Published: 01 April 2001
... Of the first
type he says little; Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura is his great example of the
second, Virgil’s Georgics of the third, and Horace’s Art of Poetry of the
fourth—a predictable canon, though he admits modern works too, and
concludes his lecture...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2013
... allusion, in the “Digression Concerning Madness,” to
Apollonius as one of six “great Introducers of new Schemes in Philosophy”
(Walsh, 107). The others are Epicurus, Diogenes, Lucretius, Paracelsus, and
Descartes. Ormsby-Lennon rightly observes that Apollonius is “the odd phi-
losopher out...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 51–77.
Published: 01 September 2006
...: laudable in Lucius Brutus’s vow to avenge Lucretia’s rape, as
in Beaufort’s 1771 depiction of the oath of Brutus, entitled Brutus, Lucretius
Père de Lucrèce, et Collatinus son mari ; morally ambiguous in his execution
of his sons for treason, as in David’s 1789 Brutus (fi gure 2); but reprehensi...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 46–61.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700–1789 (London: Routledge, 2003), 105–08. 28. James Morland, “ ‘Master Tommy Lucretius’: Thomas Gray's Posthumous Life Writing and Conversing with the Dead in His Poetry to Richard West,” European Journal of Life Writing 9 (2020): 19–34. 29. Glecker...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 58–77.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... In a time when Epicurus, along with
Lucretius, was numbered among them, Seriman’s Englishman frankly
embraces the principles of a mild and sober kind of Epicureanism. He val-
ues the “affects” and “common sense,” favors empirical method in the natu-
ral sciences...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
Published: 01 September 2021
... for such change, but not plausibly because it simply escapes habit and culture. Notwithstanding the persistence of the sublime, critics now frequently recoil from it as an aesthetic that harvests one man's pleasure from others’ pain and exploitation, be that the enjoyment of a shipwreck (Lucretius...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 62–81.
Published: 01 September 2024
...). Pope's marginalia also reflect the extent of his engagement with his books: we know that he admired and read regularly Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Lucretius, Martial, Ovid, and Quintilian, as well as English authors such as Chaucer, Langland, Spenser, Sidney, Jonson, Herbert, Milton, Butler, Dryden...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 3–18.
Published: 01 April 2001
...
history and is also present in, say, Aeschylus or Lucretius.
It may be that Dryden’s own work trained his readers to see him in this
light, for his own poetry traffics in examples, types, and kinds that on the
whole encourage an untoward understanding of those sorts...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 111–142.
Published: 01 April 2012
... and humans with
horns. In Young’s satire, Sloane, the collector of ludi naturae, becomes his
own lusus naturae, the epitome of oddity, mesmerized by the margins of
culture, the brinks of all we hate. Pope develops this inversion of sublime
and ridiculous in his parody of Lucretius’s treatise...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 57–88.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... of California, 1996), 142, and Conte, Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy,
Pliny’s Encyclopedia, trans. Glenn W. Most (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1994),
141–43. Conte deals as well with the complications of generic change from Homer to
the Aeneid. I have adapted his theories, together with R. S...
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