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Zusatztext Though this volume is, as the editors acknowledge, a collection of case studies rather than a comprehensive account, it nonetheless illustrates the range and vitality of British Neo-Latin in the centuries under discussion. It shows, too, that there are many discoveries still to 108 seventeenth-century news be made and many areas of British Neo-Latin which invite reassessment. That all the contributors hold or used to hold university posts in one of the countries under discussion, that there is now a British Society for Neo-Latin Studies, and that regular Neo-Latin seminars and colloquia are held at Cambridge, where courses may be taken at the undergraduate level, further exemplify the vitality of Neo-Latin studies in Great Britain and Ireland today. Informationen zum Autor Luke Houghton teaches Classics at Rugby School, UK, and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK. He has published widely on early-modern Latin literature and has co-edited Perceptions of Horace (Bloomsbury, 2009), Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (Bloomsbubry, 2012) and Virgil and Renaissance Culture (2018). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS). She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (2012) with Luke Houghton. Luke Houghton teaches Classics at Rugby School, UK, and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK. He has published widely on early-modern Latin literature and has co-edited Perceptions of Horace (Bloomsbury, 2009), Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (Bloomsbubry, 2012) and Virgil and Renaissance Culture (2018). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies Klappentext A well focused collection of case studies of sixteenth to eighteenth-century English! Welsh! Scottish and Irish neo-Latin poets by scholars from a variety of backgrounds! giving broad coverage to a high scholarly standard. Vorwort A well-focussed collection examining the context of Latin poetry produced by sixteenth- to eighteenth- century English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish neo-Latin poets. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Musa Britanna - L.B.T. Houghton (University of Glasgow, UK) and Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK) 1. John Leland and Communities of the Epigram in the Henrician Renaissance - Andrew Taylor (Churchill College Cambridge, UK) 2. Thomas Campion: A Poet between the Two Worlds of Classical and English Literature - Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK) 3. Juvenes Ornatissimi: The Student Writing of George Herbert and John Milton - Sarah Knight (University of Leicester, UK) 4. Abraham Cowley's Davideis - Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge, UK) 5. The Role of Latin Lyric in Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex - Victoria Moul (King's College London, UK) 6. The Latin Poetry of English Gentlemen - David Money (Un...
