This book argues for a new attention to the importance of beauty and the aesthetic in our response to poetry. Charles Martindale explores ways in which Kant's aesthetic theory, as set out in the Critique of Judgement, remains of fundamental importance for the modern critic. He argues that the Kantian "judgement of taste" is not formalist, and explores the relationship between the aesthetic and the political in our responses to art. Finally he urges the value of aesthetic criticism as pioneered by Walter Pater and others. The (mainly Latin) poems discussed are all translated, and the book will...

Compiled by an international team of Shakespeareans and classicists, this study investigates Shakespeare's classicism and demonstrates how he used a variety of classical books to explore such crucial areas of human experience as love, politics, ethics, and history. It offers a comprehensive analysis of Shakespeare's classicism that will also serve as a useful introduction for students and others approaching the subject for the first time.

This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.

• A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics.
  
• Emphasizes theoretical aspects of reception.
  
• Written by a wide range of contributors from young scholars to established figures, from Europe, the UK and the USA.
  
• Draws on material from many different fields, from translation studies to the visual arts, and from...