Description: During his lifetime Aaron Hill was one of the most lively cultural patrons and brokers on the London literary scene - an image hard to square with the company of undistinguished scribblers to which Pope relegated him in the Dunciad. Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750, the first biography of this fascinating figure for nearly a century, aims to correct the distorted picture of the Augustan cultural scene which Pope passed down to posterity. Hill deliberately confronted Pope in his attempt to free poetry's sublime and visionary potential from the stale platitudes of neo-classical convention. An early champion of women poets, he also enjoyed close relationships with Eliza Haywood and Martha Fowke, and brought his three writing daughters Urania, Astrea, and Minerva into close contact with his lifelong friend the novelist Samuel Richardson. In 1711 Hill, as stage manager and librettist, introduced Handel to the English stage, as well as lobbying tirelessly for innovation in the eighteenth-century theatre. His entrepreneurial energies, directed at both commercial and cultural projects, mirror the zeitgeist of early Hanoverian Britain.
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EAN: 9780198183884
UPC: 9780198183884
ISBN: 9780198183884
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Book Title: Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750 [Hardb
Item Length: 23.9 cm
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Aaron Hill: the Muses' Projector, 1685-1750
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 242 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 551 g
Author: Christine Gerrard
Subject Area: Biographies & True Stories
Item Width: 163 mm
Format: Hardcover
