Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles

Investigation of the Latin poetry produced by British poets from the sixteenth century onwards not only affords an indispensable insight into a dominant strand in the intellectual, cultural and educational life of the British Isles during this period, when the composition of Latin poetry was a regular feature of school curricula and a popular leisure-time activity of the educated élite; it also sheds light on the poetic principles and practice of major British poets (such as Campion, Cowley, Marvell and Milton), who penned a large quantity of neo-Latin verse in addition to their better-known vernacular works. Contributors: Ceri Davies, Swansea University; Roger P.H. Green, University of Glasgow; Jason Harris, University College Cork; Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford; Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge; L.B.T. Houghton, University of Glasgow; Sarah Knight, University of Leicester; Gesine Manuwald, University College London; David Money, University of Cambridge; Victoria Moul, King's College London; Niall Rudd, University of Liverpool; Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary; Andrew Taylor, Churchill College Cambridge; Angus Vine, University of Sussex.

Luke Houghton is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK.

Introduction: Musa Britanna
L.B.T. Houghton (University of Glasgow, UK) and Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK)

John Leland and Communities of the Epigram in the Henrician Renaissance
Andrew Taylor (Churchill College Cambridge, UK)

Thomas Campion: A Poet between the Two Worlds of Classical and English Literature
Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK)

Juvenes Ornatissimi: The Student Writing of George Herbert and John Milton
Sarah Knight (University of Leicester, UK)

Abraham Cowley's Davideis
Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge, UK)

The Role of Latin Lyric in Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex
Victoria Moul (King's College London, UK)

The Latin Poetry of English Gentlemen
David Money (University of Cambridge, UK)

Samuel Johnson and Latin Poetry
Niall Rudd (University of Liverpool, UK)

Spectacles from Scotland: Camden, Johnston, and the Urbes Britanniae
Angus Vine (University of Sussex, UK)

George Buchanan, Chieftain o' the Poet Race
Roger P.H. Green (University of Glasgow, UK)

Scotland's Horace: The Secular Lyric Poetry of George Buchanan
Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford, UK)

Lucan in the Highlands: James Philip's Grameid and the Traditions of Ancient Epic
L.B.T. Houghton (University of Glasgow, UK)

Est Locus a Castro Declivi Rupe Recedens: A Sense of Place in the Epigrams of Sir John Stradling (1563-1637)
Ceri Davies (Swansea University, UK)

An Irish Poet in Wittenberg, 1539: Two Poems in Praise of Edmund Bonner and Thomas Cromwell
Jason Harris (University College Cork, Ireland)

'No Surrender': An Anonymous Irish Epic on the Battle of the Boyne
Keith Sidwell (University of Calgary, Canada)

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