Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Av Gesine Manuwald, L. B. T. Houghton, UK) Manuwald, Dr. Gesine (Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University College London, UK) Houghton, Dr. L. B. T. (Lecturer in Classics, Rugby School, Luke Houghton

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Investigation of the Latin poetry produced by British poets from the sixteenth century onwards affords an indispensible insight into a dominant strand in the intellectual, cultural and educational life of the British Isles during this period. At this time, the composition of Latin poetry was a regular feature of school curricula and a popular leisure-time activity of the educated elite. Such examination also sheds light on the poetic principles and practice of major British poets (such as Campion, Cowley, Herbert and Milton) who penned a large quantity of neo-Latin verse in addition to their better-known vernacular works.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-07-19
Mått154 x 232 x 22 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
MedarbetareHoughton,L.B.T.
ISBN9781780930145

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Luke Houghton is Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow. He is co-author of Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and his Readers (2009). Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK. Her publications include, as editor, Cicero, Philippics 3-9 ( 2007); a revised edition of Cicero, Philippics (2009) and Roman Drama: A Reader (2010). Contributors: Ceri Davies, Swansea University; Roger P.H. Green, University of Glasgow; Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge; Jason Harris, University College Cork, Ireland; Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford; L.B.T. Houghton, University of Glasgow; Sarah Knight, University of Leicester; Gesine Manuwald, University College London; David Money, University of Cambridge; Victoria Moul, King's College London; Niall Rudd, University of Liverpool; Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary, Canada; Andrew Taylor, University of Cambridge; Angus Vine, University of Stirling.

Introduction: Musa Britanna - L.B.T. Houghton (University of Glasgow, UK) and Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK) 1. John Leland and Communities of the Epigram in the Henrician Renaissance - Andrew Taylor (Churchill College Cambridge, UK) 2. Thomas Campion: A Poet between the Two Worlds of Classical and English Literature - Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK) 3. Juvenes Ornatissimi: The Student Writing of George Herbert and John Milton - Sarah Knight (University of Leicester, UK) 4. Abraham Cowley's Davideis - Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge, UK) 5. The Role of Latin Lyric in Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex - Victoria Moul (King's College London, UK) 6. The Latin Poetry of English Gentlemen - David Money (University of Cambridge, UK) 7. Samuel Johnson and Latin Poetry - Niall Rudd (University of Liverpool, UK) 8. Spectacles from Scotland: Camden, Johnston, and the Urbes Britanniae - Angus Vine (University of Sussex, UK) 9. George Buchanan, Chieftain o' the Poet Race - Roger P.H. Green (University of Glasgow, UK) 10. Scotland's Horace: The Secular Lyric Poetry of George Buchanan - Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford, UK) 11. Lucan in the Highlands: James Philip's Grameid and the Traditions of Ancient Epic - L.B.T. Houghton (University of Glasgow, UK) 12. Est Locus a Castro Declivi Rupe Recedens: A Sense of Place in the Epigrams of Sir John Stradling (1563-1637) - Ceri Davies (Swansea University, UK) 13. An Irish Poet in Wittenberg, 1539: Two Poems in Praise of Edmund Bonner and Thomas Cromwell - Jason Harris (University College Cork, Ireland) 14. 'No Surrender': An Anonymous Irish Epic on the Battle of the Boyne - Keith Sidwell (University of Calgary, Canada) Index

Though this volume is, as the editors acknowledge, a collection of case studies rather than a comprehensive account, it nonetheless illustrates the range and vitality of British Neo-Latin in the centuries under discussion. It shows, too, that there are many discoveries still to 108 seventeenth-century news be made and many areas of British Neo-Latin which invite reassessment. That all the contributors hold or used to hold university posts in one of the countries under discussion, that there is now a British Society for Neo-Latin Studies, and that regular Neo-Latin seminars and colloquia are held at Cambridge, where courses may be taken at the undergraduate level, further exemplify the vitality of Neo-Latin studies in Great Britain and Ireland today.