Introduction: Trafficking with antiquity: trade, poetry, and remediation -- Strange language: imported words in Johnson's Ars Poetica -- Shaping subtlety: sugar in The Arte of English Poesie -- Publishing pain: zero in The Rape of Lucrece -- Breeding fame: horses and bulbs in Venus and Adonis -- On Chapman crossing Marlowe's Hellespont: pearls, dyes, and ink in Hero and Leander -- Epilogue: The peregrinations of barbarous antiquity
Summary
Barbarous Antiquity reorients early modern English poetry around England's mercantile and cultural exchanges with the Ottoman Empire, revealing how English poetry renegotiated its relationship to the classical past
