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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houghton, L. B. T., 1978- editor.

Manuwald, Gesine, editor.

Language:

English

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (535 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London Bristol Classical Press 2012.

Language Note:

English

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472539946

147253994X

9781472503015

1472503015

9781472503022

1472503023

OCLC:

841911070