Victoria Moul (University College London)

A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Painting the fullest picture to date of early modern England's bilingual poetic culture, this study contextualises landmark texts ranging from Tottel's miscellany to the hymns of Isaac Watts, via Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Milton and Cowley. This account is invaluable for both scholars of early modern English poetry and classicists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 602
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1000g
• ISBN-13: 9781107192713
• ISBN-10: 1107192714
• Artikelnr.: 63623275

Autorenporträt

Victoria Moul is Associate Professor in Early Modern Latin and English at University College London and is a leading expert on the relationship between Latin and English poetry. She is the author of Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and the editor of the Cambridge Guide to Neo-Latin Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She has published widely on classical, early modern and modernist poetry alike.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Shorter verse: 1. Anglo-Latin 'Moralising Lyric' in Early Modern England
2. Metrical variety and the development of Latin lyric poetry in the latter sixteenth century
3. Buchanan, Beza and the genre of the Sidney Psalter
4. Formal panegyric lyric in England, 1550-1650
5. Abraham Cowley and formal innovation: verse sequences, inset lyrics, Pindarics and free verse
6. Religious and devotional epigram and lyric
7. Epigram culture and literary bilingualism in early modern England
8. Satire, invective and humourous verse
Longer verse: 9. Panegyric Epic in Early Modern England
10. Latin style and late Elizabethan poetry: rethinking epylli
11. Palingenian epic: allegory, ambition, and didacticism
Afterword.