Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles

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  • ISBN 9781780930145
  • Weight: 450g
  • Dimensions: 154 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Jul 2012
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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.

Luke Houghton is Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow. He is co-author of Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and his Readers (2009).

Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK. Her publications include, as editor, Cicero, Philippics 3-9 ( 2007); a revised edition of Cicero, Philippics (2009) and Roman Drama: A Reader (2010).

Contributors: Ceri Davies, Swansea University; Roger P.H. Green, University of Glasgow; Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge; Jason Harris, University College Cork, Ireland; 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, Canada; Andrew Taylor, University of Cambridge; Angus Vine, University of Stirling.