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Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles.
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 regul...
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1. Introduction: Musa Britanna; England; 2. John Leland's communities of the epigram; 3. Thomas Campion: a poet between the two worlds of classical and English literature; 4. Juvenes ornatissimi: the student writing of George Herbert and John Milton; 5. Abraham Cowley, Davideis. Sacri poematis operis imperfecti liber unus; 6. Horatian odes in Abraham Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex (1668); 7. Samuel Johnson's Latin poetry; 8. The Latin poetry of English gentlemen; Scotland; 9. George Buchanan, chieftain of neo-Latin poets.
- 10. George Buchanan: the Scottish Horace11. Spectacles from Scotland: Camden, Johnston and the Urbes Britanniae; 12. Lucan in the Highlands: James Philp's Grameid and the traditions of ancient epic; Wales; 13. Est locus a castro decliui rupe recedens: a sense of place in some Latin works from Glamorgan; Ireland; 14. Ireland's first Renaissance poet: the Latin verse of Doncanus Hibernus; 15. 'Now or never, now and forever': an unpublished, anonymous Irish Jacobite epic on the Williamite War (1688-91); Index; Ancient authors and texts; A; B; C; E; H; J; L; M; N; O; P; S; T; V.
- Early modern individuals and textsA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.