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This volume offers a wide range of sample passages from literature
written in Latin in the British Isles during the period from about
1500 to 1800. It includes a general introduction to and
bibliography to the Latin literature of these centuries, as well as
Latin texts with English translations, introductions and notes.
These texts present a rich panorama of the different literary
genres, styles and themes flourishing at the time, illustrating the
role of Latin texts in the development of literary genres, the
diversity of authors writing in Latin in early modern Britain, and
the importance of Latin in contemporary political, religious and
scientific debates. The collection, which includes both texts by
well-known authors (such as John Milton, Thomas More and George
Buchanan) and previously unpublished items, can be used as a point
of entry for students at school and university level, but will also
be of interest to specialists in a number of academic disciplines.
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. Contributors:
Ceri Davies, Swansea University; Roger P.H. Green, University of
Glasgow; Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge; Jason Harris,
University College Cork; 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; Andrew Taylor, University of Cambridge; Angus Vine,
University of Stirling.
Throughout his work, the Roman poet Horace displays many, sometimes
conflicting, faces: these include dutiful son, expert lover,
gentleman farmer, man about town, outsider, poet laureate, sharp
satirist and measured moraliser. This book features a wide array of
essays by an international team of scholars from a number of
different academic disciplines, each one shedding new light on
aspects of Horace's poetry and its later reception in literature,
art and scholarship from antiquity to the present day. In
particular, the collection seeks to investigate the fortunes of
'Horace' both as a literary personality and as a uniquely varied
textual corpus of enormous importance to western culture. The poems
shape an author to suit his poetic aims; readers reshape that
author to suit their own aesthetic, social and political needs.
Studying these various versions of Horace and their interaction
illuminates the author, his poetry and his readers.
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