Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780930143 ISBN 13: 9781780930145

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press, 2012

Synopsis

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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Review:

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. -- J. W. Binns Neo-Latin News

About the Author:

Luke Houghton is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780930143
• ISBN 13: 9781780930145
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Houghton Luke