English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth CenturyThis book discusses Imitations of the ancient Roman verse satirists Horace, Juvenal, and Perseus published in Britain in the first half of the eighteenth century. It endeavors to put major writers such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in the context of lesser writers of the period. It also devotes attention to other canonical writers such as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, and Christopher Smart. |
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... Latin to construe the originals , as well as to allow readers who do not to follow the argument . In some places the differences between Latin and English syntax or idiom have forced me into a somewhat freer rendering simply in order to ...
... Latin to construe the originals , as well as to allow readers who do not to follow the argument . In some places the differences between Latin and English syntax or idiom have forced me into a somewhat freer rendering simply in order to ...
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... Latin verse has been ridiculed by critics such as Coleridge . Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century , when the use of the Latin tongue was so general among learned men , that Eras- mus is said to have forgotten his ...
... Latin verse has been ridiculed by critics such as Coleridge . Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century , when the use of the Latin tongue was so general among learned men , that Eras- mus is said to have forgotten his ...
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... Latin poets could certainly feel in Latin ? So while , strictly viewed , Jabez Earle's Rus , a poem in Latin hexam- eters published in 1724 ( Foxon E9 ) , does not belong in a book about English Imitations of classical satire , this ...
... Latin poets could certainly feel in Latin ? So while , strictly viewed , Jabez Earle's Rus , a poem in Latin hexam- eters published in 1724 ( Foxon E9 ) , does not belong in a book about English Imitations of classical satire , this ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The First Political Imitation of Juvenal | 23 |
Imitators Imitating Swift Imitating Horace | 53 |
Copyright | |
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