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Romans and Romantics is a rich Thus it is highly welcome that in welcome Thus it is highly 3) is devoted to the reception of the to reception 3) is devoted 1 classical antiquity. classical book. In particular and rewarding part- perspec its first opens up new Jonathan illuminates the Sachs tives: to in relation of Rome importance Jordheim British Helge ; discusses the ‘struggle with time’ in Titan ( ’s tiquity, has in this perspective been a has in this perspective tiquity, fact. paradoxical - seen an increas have we years recent modifying or, ing number of studies overturning often,more completely the- Romanti of anti-classical idea cism. As the heritage Greek has typi- this though, idea been in focus, cally the by been replaced has sometimes Romanticism. idea of anti-Roman The anthology Romans and Roman - a double for tics thus recompenses The aim of the anthologyneglect. is the significance highlight to twofold: Romanticism, for antiquity of Roman the idea of how demonstrate and to filtered is subsequently ancient Rome of it. the image Romantic through forms partThe volume of the Oxford- Series in no which Classical Presences, (2005–June so far less than 54 volumes 20 Timothy Saunders scrutinizes Saunders the Timothy - pp. £ 89.00 1

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Ed. T koie. Ralph Pite, and Mathilde Skoie. Press, 20 Oxford: Oxford University xxii + 43 The narration of literary history, as The narration of literary history, it, has a number of recurring know we the including ideas of characteristics, lineages. succession and evolutionary and be clearly supposed to are Epochs simul- and also to delimited mutually negate, and to from, emerge taneously power rhetorical The other. each a from narrationstems of epochal diametrical construction favouring in thisoppositions. Arranged way, the literary heritage- manage becomes and teachable. able, understandable, of organisation The evolutionary to back traced is usually knowledge of modernthe literary roots histori- it has yet, in Romanticism; ography that apparent become increasingly repeatedly models of this sort have ade- seem more may what hindered descriptions A of Romanticism. quate of flagrant example this is a common of Romantic view and classical heritage Already the as antithetical. as designation of the new the idea that implied ‘Romantic’ while from its inspiration drew classicism authors Romantic literature, classical The cir literature. turned medieval to Romantics key thatcumstance several and scholars, classical prominent were the picture approaching could even as a rebirthliterary an- era of classical Romans and Romantics 96473_romantik 2_.indd 133 19/12/13 09.30 - 0) – is that 1 789 became 1 832 (20 1 789– 1 The conception of Greece as the of Greece The conception in Sachs’s suggestion A central pro- and epilogues by Ralph epilogues by and pro- Pite and respectively. Most, Glenn W. - of the fa time and a great novelty is vouritedesire Romantic object of the by contributors. challenged hardly exertedat- a deep undoubtedly Greece the whether Romantics, over traction wished to Winckelmann, led by they, na- driven by art, Greek or, rediscover pathos,tional or religious supported independence. the struggle for Greek - exot still thatBut the was Greece fact Rome while to access, ic and difficult tour of the to grand had long belonged along witheducated youth, thesitu- domi- was ation that teaching school the Latin, while knowledge nated by it makes often was poor, of Greek thatevident the of Rome importance - be underesti not should definitely of the contributors mated. As several - con not were and Rome Greece attest, Romantic authors;for flicting entities of Greece the notion on the contrary, often more filtered thanwas not as Winckelmann just Rome, through of his seminal ideas had based much artof Greek copies. on Roman in his book Ro article elaborated – Rome in the Britishmantic Antiquity: Imagination politically combustible material combustible politically in British Thus it could Romanticism. of for the perception models also offer modernity: ‘Republican in this Rome, influen- becomes increasingly reading, tial in the period Romantic because in a period imperial of political unrest, reformation, expansion, and aesthetic allegories competing provided Rome republican Rome after Rome republican - 885), - 1 807);- Timo 1 - Ste Vosmaer; Carel 880) by 1 830); and Carl J. Richard dis- J. Richard 830); and Carl 1 In the second part of thevolume Part III of the anthology, finally, finally, Part III of the anthology, 902); Erling Sandmo examines902); Erling - Ro 1 concept of originality concept to in relation Jo- others, in, among ideas of Rome and the Winckelmann hann Joachim ac- Mathilde Skoie brothers; Schlegel of the readings Romantic counts for authoresselegies of Roman Sulpicia; - Roman studies Liveley and Genevieve her discussion of in tic reception of ‘love’. of the concept Ro- readings of individual find we mantic authors: Stuart Gillespie and to each one essay devote Bruce Graver Juan Christian ; Smith; discusses Charlotte Pellicer Catharine Ger analyses Edwards Corinnemaine de Staël’s ( mantic opera; and Piero Garofalo, Garofalo, and Piero mantic opera; - Romanti Rome and considers finally, cism in Italian cinema. The eighteen articles excellent surrounded are by - Pa deals with Walter Evangelista fano ter’s Marius ( the Epicurean novel cusses American (Ralph Romanticism Haw and Nathaniel Emerson Waldo thorne). deals with of the- the Ro reception Elizabeth of Rome: mantic notion The the explores novel Prettejohn Ama­zon ( thy Webb elaborates on ’s, Byron’s, on Lord elaborates Webb thy Shel- Bysshe Mary and Percy Shelley’s, and contemporary to reactions ley’s Børtnes Jostein ancient Rome; writes about - relation Pushkin’s Magnus Ovidian exile; Jørgen ship to article concernsSejersted’s Henrik Skabelsen, Mennesket og Wergeland’s Messias ( Ralph Pite discusses Thomas Hardy, Ralph Pite discusses Thomas Hardy, of Pilgrimage’ his ‘Poems especially (

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- - Paula Henrikson Paula Swedish Academy, Academy, Swedish Uppsala University Uppsala Research fellow at the fellow Research Foundation, appointed at Foundation, supported by a grant from supported from a grant by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg the Knut and Alice Wallenberg The declared aim is to offer, ‘for ‘for offer, aim is to The declared only objections, however, Such ity of the subject. the first time, an extensive and wide- and an time, extensive the first of the discussion relationship ranging and Roman Romanticism between - the total Undoubtedly, antiquity’. is richity of the and varied, volume in space and time. with great diversity the purpose would however, Perhaps, a concentration benefited from have the issues; the core around breadth of the least volume’s exten - subjects, not sion in historical time, comes at the Germanexpense of depth. - Romanti cism, despite the fruitful contribu- parttions in thevolume, first of the while neglected, somewhat seem may partsother Romanticism of European incognita names such terra . For stay René de Chateaubriand as François or look we areas into and investigations in vain, or Romantic drama as Romantic such deepened theart could certainly have discussion. thepoint to richness of the field and that the obscure Ro fact should not - recom mans and Romantics is a highly book. The mendable and eye-opening said about the- rela is hardly word last - and Ro Romanticism tion between makes but this volume man antiquity, and productiv theobvious potential 759). The Romantics, The Romantics, 759). 1

Very illuminating is Timothy illuminating is Timothy Very ), and Erling Sandmo claims that claims Sandmo ), and Erling 1 for sensitive issues surrounding these sensitive for modernityaspects of - in contempo rary sense Britain’ a general (25). In several for is valid Sachs’s suggestion - Jord of the in the readings volume. and the passive heim depicts the way Titan in Jean Paul’s traveller apathetic - is trans in Rome his visit through revolutionary’ formed a ‘glowing into (5 even the relative absence of Roman absence of Roman the relative even can be opera in Romantic motives - of clas theexplained by conception history Roman as sical and especially for and thusrevolutionary awkward the ruling elite (350). of the concept Saunders’ investigation associated habitually of originality, withso intimately the pe- Romantic as riod regarded that it is sometimes moment. Saunders, its constituting ad fontes and reveals goes though, veneration The picture. a different fully of originality know is as we in the preceding epoch developed mention one need only Romanticism; on Original Conjectures Young’s Edward ( Composition however, are rather ambivalent on ambivalent rather are however, the- Friedrich issue. distin Schlegel kinds of different guishes between imitation imitation: autonomous concerning spirit’ ‘the universal imitation of the ‘simple and slavish, particular’ he the (70). Only latter, The view is reprehensible. claims, of a on the as promoters Romantics primitivism hold true,natural cannot of this In the version Romantic either. theme, inherited the eighteenth from as perceived is instead century, the ‘natural’ between an interaction and the ‘artificial’ (76). 96473_romantik 2_.indd 135