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- Title
Charmides and The Sphinx: Wilde's Engagement with Keats.
- Authors
ROSS, IAIN
- Abstract
The essay examines the effect of 19th-century archaeological discoveries about ancient Greece on the writing of poetry. The additional knowledge diminished the supply of mythology formerly available from which poets could draw when writing about ancient Greece. The author cites confusion in author Oscar Wilde's poem "Charmides" and attributes this to Wilde's use of older, more mythic models such as those used by poet John Keats in his poems "Endymion" and "Lamia."
- Subjects
GREECE; ESSAYS; ARCHAEOLOGY &; literature; GREEK mythology in literature; WILDE, Oscar, 1854-1900; KEATS, John, 1795-1821; CHARMIDES (Poem : Wilde); THEMES in poetry; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2008, Vol 46, Issue 4, p451
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0035