Victoria Moul

Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed exploration of Ben Jonson's relationship with his single most enduring and significant literary model, Horace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781316501641
• ISBN-10: 1316501647
• Artikelnr.: 44888668

Autorenporträt

Victoria Moul is a lecturer in Latin language and literature at King's College London. She works on various aspects of the interpretation of classical poetry in both ancient and more modern literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: imitation, allusion, translation: reading Jonson's Horace
1. Jonson's Odes: Horatian lyric presence and the dialogue with Pindar
2. Horatian libertas in Jonson's epigrams and epistles
3. Competing voices in Jonson's verse satires: Horace and Juvenal
4. Poetaster: classical translation and cultural authority
5. Translating Horace, translating Jonson
Conclusion: More Remov'd Mysteries: Jonson's textual 'occasions'
Appendix: Manuscript transcriptions.