Wit's Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics. Orgel 9780812253276 New**

Name: Wit's Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics. Orgel 9780812253276 New**
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As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners-indeed, the whole national style-through adapting the classics. But how could English literature, art, and culture, become \""classical,\"" not only in imitating the ancients, but in the sense subsequently applied to music: \""classical\"" as opposed to popular, as formal, serious, and therefore as good?\n For several decades in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Stephen Orgel writes, the return to the classics held out the promise of refinement and civility. Poetry was to be modeled on Greek and Roman examples rather than on the great English medieval\n\nWit's Treasury\nRenaissance England and the Classics\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note: t;