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A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry
Bilingual Verse Culture in Early Modern England

Name: A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry
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ISBN: 9781108136839

Author: Victoria Moul, University College London

Date Published: June 2022
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Victoria Moul's groundbreaking study uncovers one of the most important features of early modern English poetry: its bilingualism. The first guide to a forgotten literary landscape, this book considers the vast quantities of poetry that were written and read in both Latin and English from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Introducing readers to a host of new authors and drawing on hundreds of manuscript as well as print sources, it also reinterprets a series of landmarks in English poetry within a bilingual literary context. Ranging from Tottel's miscellany to the hymns of Isaac Watts, via Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Milton and Cowley, this revelatory survey shows how the forms and fashions of contemporary Latin verse informed key developments in English poetry. As the complex, highly creative interactions between the two languages are revealed, the work reshapes our understanding of what 'English' literary history means.
- Provides the first survey of the contemporary Latin poetry that was both written and most frequently read in early modern England, painting an integrated picture in which the forms and fashions of contemporary Latin verse informed key developments in English literature
- Introduces readers to a wealth of little-known authors, forms and genres in an accessible and carefully-structured way, clearly delineating the influence of classical poets, such as Claudian, as well as what was innovative and unclassical in Latin literary culture
- Re-contextualises key genres and forms of English poetry from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century within the wider bilingual literary context, offering fresh perspective on a series of key works and authors of English poetry from Tottel's miscellany to the hymns of Isaac Watts
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'Here are poems that time has forgotten, even whole authors who have slipped out of view. Victoria Moul is an ideal guide to this world of lost literature: erudite, obviously, but also radiant with wonder. She writes with undisguised relish and her translations make you want to read more.' David Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina University
'… the great strength of this book is that it takes us well beyond the reductive tendencies to which classical reception studies can be prone.' Nathaniel Hess, International Journal of the Classical Tradition
'This is not just a long book, but a really important one that provides a much-needed reset to so much scholarly neglect. Moul's book is a land of pure delight.' Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Austin
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- Date Published: June 2022
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108136839
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
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.
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Victoria Moul, University College London
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.