Title A literary history of Latin & English poetry : bilingual verse culture in early modern England / Victoria Moul

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 586 pages) : illustrations Contents Part I. Shorter verse. Anglo-Latin 'moralizing lyric' in Early Modern England -- Metrical variety and the development of Latin lyric poetry in the latter sixteenth century -- Buchanan, Beza and the genre of the Sidney psalter -- Formal panegyric lyric in England, 1550-1650 -- Abraham Cowley and formal innovations : verse sequences, inset lyrics, pindarics and free verse -- Religious and devotional epigram and lyric -- Epigram culture and literary bilingualism in Early Modern England -- Satire, invective and humorous verse -- Part II. Longer verse. Panegyric epic in Early Modern England -- Latin style and late Elizabethan poetry : rethinking Epyllia -- Palingenian epic : allegory, ambition and diadactism Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2022) Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- England -- History and criticism Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Appreciation -- England Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Translations into English -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English poetry English poetry -- Early modern Latin poetry, Medieval and modern Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Appreciation England Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2022008898 ISBN 9781108131667 1108131662 1108136834 9781108136839

Other Titles Literary history of Latin and English poetry

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