The Grecian Taste: Literature in the Age of Neo-classicism, 1740-1820

admired Aeschylus aesthetic Akenside Akenside's ancient Antiquities artists Aspasia Athens Augustan Blake Blake's classical Collins colour couplet Crotchet Castle delight derived Dr Johnson eighteenth century English Engraving Epicurus epigrams epithets Essay Flaxman genius Goethe Goldsmith Gothic Grecian Grecian taste Greece Greek Hayley Hellenics ideal beauty Imaginary Conversations Italy John Flaxman Joseph Warton Keats Lady Landor later Latin Letters lines literary lyric manner Maria Gisborne Mary Milton mind myth nature neo-classical neo-classicism Nightmare Abbey novels Paestum painter painting passage Peacock perhaps Pericles Pindar Plato Pleasures of Imagination poem poet poetic poetry political preference Prometheus Unbound prose published qualities quoted Raphael Revett Reynolds Rhododaphne Roman Rome says sculpture Shaftesbury Shelley Shelley's simplicity Society Society of Dilettanti Sophocles style temple theme Theocritus Thomas thought Tiriel tradition tragedy translation verbs verse Warton William William Hayley William Pars Winckelmann words Wordsworth writing wrote