Hellenism

The term Hellenism used in literary discussions refers stories, novels, dramas for poetry that has been inspired by classic Greek literature or makes use of classic Greek style or forms. For example - Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series embodies Hellenism and draws inspiration from Greek mythology and philosophy.
Harry Levin, in the first major study of English Romantic Hellenism, maintained that the "cult of Greece" became "mere enthusiasm" among a long series of romantic obsessions". Lord Byron, just prior to his departure for Greece in 1809, disparged the Elign marbles as "freaks" and "multilated blocks of arts".
Byron, Shelley and Keats are acknowledged by modern critics to be the best representatives of English Romantic Hellenism, as Levin notes, the three poets "are very near the centre of romantic hellenism in  England". The works of Shelley and Keats, on the other hand, continue to be examined as more purely Hellenic. William Wordsworth, as well, has been identified as a Romantic Hellenic, with Douglas Bush describing him as "the fountain-head of 19th century poetry on mythological themes".
Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, and Keats, like many minor poets, were inspired in a variety of different ways by ancient Greece.Stephen Larrabee, in concluding his analysis of the influence of Greek sculpture on the Romantics, summarises what it perhaps the main thirst of English Romantic Hellenism when he notes that the Romantic poets "wished to emulate the Greeks in making great art from the circumstances of their time".

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