A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry

A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry PDF Author: Victoria Moul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107192714
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 601

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The first account of the bilingualism of English poetic culture from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry

A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry PDF Author: Victoria Moul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107192714
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 601

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Book Description
The first account of the bilingualism of English poetic culture from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

Latin Literature

Latin Literature PDF Author: Gian Biagio Conte
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 866

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Book Description
This history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the 1000 year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. It offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors.

Ancient Latin Poetry Books

Ancient Latin Poetry Books PDF Author: Gabriel Nocchi Macedo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472132393
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Before the invention of printing, all forms of writing were done by hand. For a literary text to circulate among readers, and to be transmitted from one period in time to another, it had to be copied by scribes. As a result, two copies of an ancient book were different from one another, and each individual book or manuscript has its own history. The oldest of these books, those that are the closest to the time in which the texts were composed, are few, usually damaged, and have been often neglected in the scholarship. Ancient Latin Poetry Books presents a detailed study of the oldest manuscripts still extant that contain texts by Latin poets, such as Virgil, Terence, and Ovid. Analyzing their physical characteristics, their script, and the historical contexts in which they were produced and used, this volume shows how manuscripts can help us gain a better understanding of the history of texts, as well as of reading habits over the centuries. Since the manuscripts originated in various places of the Latin-speaking world, Ancient Latin Poetry Books investigates the readership and reception of Latin poetry in many different contexts, such schools in the Egyptian desert, aristocratic circles in southern Italy, and the Christian élite in late antique Rome. The research also contributes to our knowledge about the use of writing and the importance of the written text in antiquity. This is an innovative approach to the study of ancient literature, one that takes the materiality of texts into consideration.

The Latin Poetry of English Poets (Routledge Revivals)

The Latin Poetry of English Poets (Routledge Revivals) PDF Author: J. W. Binns
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317808495
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin verse in addition to their better-known English poetry, representing part of the vast and almost unexplored body of Neo-Latin literature which appealed to an international reading public throughout Europe. The Latin poetry of these English poets is of particular interest when it is set against the background of their writings in their own tongue: this collection examines the extent to which our judgment of a poet is altered by an awareness of his Latin works. In some we find prefigured themes which were later treated in their English verse; others wrote Latin poetry throughout their lives and give evidence in their Latin poetry of interests which do not find expression in their English compositions. This volume is a valuable resource for students of both Latin and English literature.

Latin Poetry and the Classical Tradition

Latin Poetry and the Classical Tradition PDF Author: Peter Godman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Classicism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Book Description
This wide-ranging collection of essays, written in honor of J.B. Trapp, looks at some of the central problems in the interpretation of post-classical Latin poetry. Through a variety of critical approaches, an international team of experts explores the issues of imitation and originality in Latin poetry from late Antiquity to the High Renaissance, demonstrating the richness and subtlety of the classical tradition and its literary exponents.

The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry

The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry PDF Author: Cecilia Vicuña
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195124545
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 603

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Book Description
The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.

Empire of Letters

Empire of Letters PDF Author: Stephanie Ann Frampton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190915412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Shedding new light on the history of the book in antiquity, Empire of Letters tells the story of writing at Rome at the pivotal moment of transition from Republic to Empire (c. 55 BCE-15 CE). By uniting close readings of the period's major authors with detailed analysis of material texts, it argues that the physical embodiments of writing were essential to the worldviews and self-fashioning of authors whose works took shape in them. Whether in wooden tablets, papyrus bookrolls, monumental writing in stone and bronze, or through the alphabet itself, Roman authors both idealized and competed with writing's textual forms. The academic study of the history of the book has arisen largely out of the textual abundance of the age of print, focusing on the Renaissance and after. But fewer than fifty fragments of classical Roman bookrolls survive, and even fewer lines of poetry. Understanding the history of the ancient Roman book requires us to think differently about this evidence, placing it into the context of other kinds of textual forms that survive in greater numbers, from the fragments of Greek papyri preserved in the garbage heaps of Egypt to the Latin graffiti still visible on the walls of the cities destroyed by Vesuvius. By attending carefully to this kind of material in conjunction with the rich literary testimony of the period, Empire of Letters exposes the importance of textuality itself to Roman authors, and puts the written word back at the center of Roman literature.

A Little Book of Latin Love Poetry

A Little Book of Latin Love Poetry PDF Author: John Breuker
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
This volume, originally published in 1998, has now been revised to meet the needs of students studying for the Advanced Placement Examination, and features a new introduction by Linda Fabrizio. The Latin text, copious notes on the page facing the text, appendices of proper names and places as well as of terms, are followed by a Latin-to-English glossary. This revised edition will be in print for the 2006-2007 school year when the new AP' Cicero syllabus goes into effect. The Teacher's Manual will contain translations of the text, tests to reproduce for classroom use, and more to help the busy teacher who is preparing for the new AP' Cicero syllabus.

Early Latin Poetry

Early Latin Poetry PDF Author: Jackie Elliott
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004518274
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Book Description
This study offers an introduction to the fragmentary record of early Roman poetry. In focus are the contexts, practitioners, and reception of early Roman drama (excluding comedy), epic, and satire, along with the challenges which our evidence for these entails.

Redeeming the Text

Redeeming the Text PDF Author: Charles Martindale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521427197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory (in particular reception-theory, deconstruction, theories of dialogue and the hermeneutics associated with the German philosopher Gadamer) to the interpretation of Latin poetry. Charles Martindale argues that we neither can nor should attempt to return to an 'original' meaning for ancient poems, free from later accretions and the processes of appropriation; more traditional approaches to literary enquiry conceal a metaphysics which has been put in question by various anti-foundationalist accounts of the nature of meaning and the relationship between language and what it describes. From this perspective the author examines different readings of the poetry of Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Lucan, in order to suggest alternative ways in which those texts might more profitably be read. Finally he focuses on a key term for such study 'translation' and examines the epistemological questions it raises and seeks to circumvent.