Neo-Latin poetry in the British Isles / edited by L.B.T. Houghton and Gesine Manuwald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houghton, L. B. T., 1978-

Manuwald, Gesine.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Ireland--History and criticism.

Ireland.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 276 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bristol Classical Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A well focused collection of case studies of sixteenth to eighteenth-century English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish neo-Latin poets by scholars from a variety of backgrounds, giving broad coverage to a high scholarly standard.

Contents:

Introduction : Musa Britanna / L.B.T. Houghton and Gesine Manuwald

John Leland's communities of the epigram / Andrew Taylor

Thomas Campion : a poet between the two worlds of classical and English literature / Gesine Manuwald

Juvenes ornatissimi : the student writing of George Herbert and John Milton / Sarah Knight

Abraham Cowley, Davideis. Sacri poematis operis imperfecti liber unus / Philip Hardie

Horatian odes in Abraham Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex (1668) / Victoria Moul

Samuel Johnson's Latin poetry / Niall Rudd

The Latin poetry of English gentlemen / David Money

George Buchanan, chieftain of neo-Latin poets / Roger P.H. Green

George Buchanan : the Scottish Horace / Stephen Harrison

Spectacles from Scotland : Camden, Johnston and the Urbes Britanniae / Angus Vine

Lucan in the Highlands : James Philp's Grameid and the traditions of ancient epic / L.B.T. Houghton

Est locus a castro decliui rupe recedens : a sense of place in some Latin works from Glamorgan / Ceri Davies

Ireland's first Renaissance poet : the Latin verse of Doncanus Hibernus / Jason Harris

'Now or never, now and forever' : an unpublished, anonymous Irish Jacobite epic on the Williamite War (1688-91) / Keith Sidwell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9781472539946

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.