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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 June 2022
      07 July 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108131667
      9781107192713
      9781316642634
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108131667
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1kg, 602 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.858kg, 600 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, Classical Literature
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    Book description

    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.

    Reviews

    ‘Here are poems that time has forgotten, even whole authors who have slipped out of view. Victoria Moul is an ideal guide to this world of lost literature: erudite, obviously, but also radiant with wonder. She writes with undisguised relish and her translations make you want to read more.'

    David Wilson-Okamura - East Carolina University

    ‘… the great strength of this book is that it takes us well beyond the reductive tendencies to which classical reception studies can be prone.’

    Nathaniel Hess Source: International Journal of the Classical Tradition

    ‘This is not just a long book, but a really important one that provides a much-needed reset to so much scholarly neglect. Moul’s book is a land of pure delight.’

    Cliff Cunningham Source: Sun News Austin

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      pp 1-22
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