Greek epigram in reception J.A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and the invention of desire, 1805-1929 Nisbet, Gideon creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History enk 2014 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (389 pages) : illustrations "This book is a chronological survey of the reception of the Greek Anthology (a Byzantine collection of ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams). Tracing the strange evolution of the Greek Anthology from the early nineteenth century to the years after the first World War, the volume analyses the complex webs of rhetoric that are spun as writers and translators bring their different agendas to bear on the Anthology's text, pruning it to meet their needs. As so little was known about its poets, and because it stood for the Greeks and their culture, the text became the battleground during the 1870s-90s on which normative and dissident interpretations of Ancient Greece were fought out. An emergent mass readership became caught between opposing and rhetorically loaded accounts, casting the Anthology, and thus the ancient race on whom the British were supposed to be modelling themselves, as patriots and doting spouses or as lovers of male Beauty, like the Decadent sensation Oscar Wilde." from book jacket. Part 1. The descent from Olympus -- The miscellanies of Bland and Merivale -- Three mid-century 'Anthologies' -- Part 2. Wilde's meleager -- "The most precious relic" -- "The true Liber Amoris at last" -- Part 3. "The Book of Greek life" -- Responses to Symonds -- Reed and girdle: The anthology in the 1920s. specialized Gideon Nisbet. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk--- Greek anthology Greek anthology Epigrams, Greek Appreciation Great Britain History English literature Greek influences English literature 19th century History and criticism Épigrammes grecques Appréciation Grande-Bretagne Histoire Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique English literature English literature Greek influences Great Britain 1800-1899 fast PA3459 .N57 2013 881.0109 Classical presences 9780191761355 0191761354 9780199662494 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/5266 U3W 131114 20260319161334.9 in00005712456 eng