Celestial aspirations : classical impulses in British poetry and art /

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. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during...

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Main Author:	Hardie, Philip R. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022].
Series:	E. H. Gombrich lecture series.
Subjects:	English poetry > Classical influences. Art, English > Classical influences. Heaven in literature. Heaven in art.