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Author Moul, Victoria, 1980-

Title Jonson, Horace and the classical tradition / Victoria Moul
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Contents Imitation, allusion, translation : reading Jonson's Horace -- Jonson's Odes : Horatian lyric presence and the dialogue with Pindar -- Horatian libertas in Jonson's epigrams and epistles -- Competeing voices in Jonson's verse satire : Horace and Juvenal -- Poestaster : classical translation and cultural authority -- Translating Horace, translating Jonson -- More remov'd mysteries : Jonson's textual 'occasions.'
Summary "The influence of the Roman poet Horace on Ben Jonson has often been acknowledged, but never fully explored. Discussing Jonson's Horatianism in detail, this study also places Jonson's densely intertextual relationship with Horace's Latin text within the broader context of his complex negotiations with a range of other 'rivals' to the Horatian model including Pindar, Seneca, Juvenal and Martial. The new reading of Jonson's classicism that emerges is one founded not upon static imitation, but rather a lively dialogue between competing models - an allusive mode that extends into the seventeenth-century reception of Jonson himself as a latter-day 'Horace'. In the course of this analysis, the book provides fresh readings of many of Jonson's best known poems - including 'Inviting a Friend to Dinner' and 'To Penshurst' - as well as a new perspective on many lesser known pieces, and a range of unpublished manuscript material"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Criticism and interpretation
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Knowledge
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Knowledge -- Latin Literature
Horace -- Influence
SUBJECT Horace fast
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 fast
Subject Classicism -- England -- History -- 17th century
English poetry -- Roman influences
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Latin literature
Classicism
English poetry -- Roman influences
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511712692
0511712693
9780511711978
0511711972
0521117429
9780521117425
9781316501641
1316501647