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Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles This page intentionally left blank Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles Edited by L.B.T. Houghton and Gesine Manuwald Bristol Classical Press First published in 2012 by Bristol Classical Press an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square London WC1B 3DP, UK Introduction and editorial arrangement © 2012 by L.B.T. Houghton and Gesine Manuwald The contributors retain copyright in their individual contributions. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. CIP records for this book are available from the British Library and the Library of Congress ISBN 9781780930145 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, Surrey www.bloomsburyacademic.com Contents Acknowledgements vii List of contributors ix 1. Introduction: Musa Britanna L.B.T. Houghton and Gesine Manuwald 1 England 2. John Leland’s communities of the epigram Andrew Taylor 15 3. Thomas Campion: a poet between the two worlds of classical and English literature Gesine Manuwald 36 4. Juvenes ornatissimi: the student writing of George Herbert and John Milton Sarah Knight 51 5. Abraham Cowley, Davideis. Sacri poematis operis imperfecti liber unus Philip Hardie 69 6. Horatian odes in Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Sex (1668) Victoria Moul 87 7. Samuel Johnson’s Latin poetry Niall Rudd 105 8. The Latin poetry of English gentlemen David Money 125 Scotland 9. George Buchanan, chieftain of neo-Latin poets Roger P.H. Green 142 10. George Buchanan: the Scottish Horace Stephen Harrison 155 11. Spectacles from Scotland: Camden, Johnston and the Urbes Britanniae Angus Vine 173 v Contents 12. Lucan in the Highlands: James Philp’s Grameid and the traditions of ancient epic L.B.T. Houghton 190 Wales 13. Est locus a castro decliui rupe recedens: a sense of place in some Latin works from Glamorgan Ceri Davies 208 Ireland 14. Ireland’s first Renaissance poet: the Latin verse of Doncanus Hibernus Jason Harris 230 15. ‘Now or never, now and forever’: an unpublished, anonymous Irish Jacobite epic on the Williamite War (1688-91) Keith Sidwell 250 Index 269 vi Acknowledgements The essays included here have all been commissioned specially for this volume. Some were first aired as part of a panel at the launch confer- ence of the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges held at University College London in September 2011; others have been presented at meetings of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies and the Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies. We have not sought to impose any uniformity of approach, beyond inviting contributors to provide extracts illustrating something of the literary flavour of the works being discussed. We hope that the result- ing variety will be seen as a strength, rather than as a weakness, of the collection. Spelling of Latin texts has been standardised in the case of ancient authors; in passages quoted from neo-Latin works spelling follows the original orthography or that of modern editions, where these exist. The expression ‘British Isles’ is used in our title and elsewhere in the volume as a geographical shorthand, and is not intended to carry political connotations with reference either to the present day or to the period under discussion. We are very grateful to all the contributors for their initial enthusi- asm and subsequent collaboration, and to Deborah Blake for her editorial patience and good humour, and for her support of this project from its inception. Permission to reproduce the engraving which ap- pears on p. 210 was very kindly granted by Glamorgan Archives. Glasgow & London, December 2011 L.B.T.H. & G.M. vii This page intentionally left blank List of contributors Ceri Davies, Emeritus Professor of Classics, Swansea University. Roger P.H. Green, Emeritus Professor of Humanity, University of Glasgow. Philip Hardie, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge. Jason Harris, Lecturer in the Department of History and Director of the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, University College Cork. Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. L.B.T. Houghton, Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow. Sarah Knight, Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Litera- ture, University of Leicester. Gesine Manuwald, Professor of Latin, University College London. David Money, Director of Studies in Classics, Wolfson College, Cam- bridge. Victoria Moul, Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, King’s College London. Niall Rudd, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Liverpool. Keith Sidwell, Emeritus Professor of Greek and Latin, University College Cork, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary. Andrew Taylor, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Churchill College, Cambridge. Angus Vine, Lecturer in English, University of Stirling. ix
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