Details

Subject(s)

• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern—England—History and criticism [Browse]
• England—Intellectual life [Browse]

Related name

• Binns, J. W. [Browse]

Series

• Routledge revivals. [More in this series]
• Routledge Revivalsr

Summary note

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 whi

Notes

First published in 1974 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Introduction; I The Latin Poetry of Thomas Campion; II The Latin Poetry of George Herbert; III The Latin Poetry of John Milton; IV Richard Crashaw's Epigrammata Sacra; V The Latin Poetry of Vincent Bourne; VI The Latin Poetry of Walter Savage Landor; Index

ISBN

• 1-317-80848-7
• 1-317-80849-5
• 1-315-81574-5

OCLC

870529928

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315815749

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