Thomas May Lucans Pharsalia 1627

Author : Emma Buckley
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1781889953
Total Pages : 461 pages
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Download or read book Thomas May, Lucan’s Pharsalia (1627) written by Emma Buckley and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauded after his death as ‘champion of the English Commonwealth’, but also derided as a ‘most servile wit, and mercenary pen’, the poet, dramatist and historian Thomas May (c.1595–1650) produced the first full translation into English of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile shortly before a ruinous civil war engulfed his own country. Lucan, whose epic had lamented the Roman Republic’s doomed struggle to preserve liberty and inevitable enslavement to the Caesars, and who was forced to commit suicide at the behest of the emperor Nero, was a figure of fascination in early modern Europe. May’s accomplished rendition of his challenging poem marked an important moment in the history of its English reception. This is a modernized edition of the first complete (1627) edition of the translation. It includes prefatory materials, dedications and May’s own historical notes on the text. Besides an introduction contextualising May’s life and work and the key features of his translation, it offers a full commentary to the text highlighting how May responded to contemporary editions and commentaries on Lucan, and explaining points of literary, political, philosophical interest. There is also a detailed glossary and bibliography, and a set of textual notes enumerating the chief differences between the 1627 edition and the others produced in May’s lifetime. This volume aims not just to provide an accessible path into the dense, sometimes provocative poem May shapes from Lucan, but also a broader appreciation of the translator’s literary merits and the role his work plays in the history of the English reception of Roman literature and culture.

Author : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521590693
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain written by Donald R. Kelley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.

Author : Edward Paleit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199602980
Total Pages : 351 pages
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Download or read book War, Liberty, and Caesar written by Edward Paleit and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In War, Liberty, and Caesar, Edward Paleit discusses how readers and writers of the English Renaissance read and understood Lucan's epic poem on the Roman civil wars. Looking at engagements with Lucan across a wide variety of literary forms, Paleit questions what made this Latin author so relevant during this period.

Author : Syrithe Pugh
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526152665
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Conversations written by Syrithe Pugh and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries – often more so. This volume seeks to recapture that sense of intimacy and immediacy, as scholars from both sides of the modern disciplinary divide come together to eavesdrop on the conversations conducted through allusion and intertextual play in works from Petrarch to Milton and beyond. The essays include discussions of Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, the anonymous drama Caesars Revenge, Shakespeare and Marvell, and look forward to the grand retrospect of Shelley’s Adonais. Together, they help us to understand how poets across the ages have thought about their relation to their predecessors, and about their own contributions to what Shelley would call ‘that great poem, which all poets...have built up since the beginning of the world’.

Author : Thomas May
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107180252
Total Pages : 247 pages
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Download or read book Afterlives of the Roman Poets written by Nora Goldschmidt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction').

Author : Andrew Shifflett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521592031
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton written by Andrew Shifflett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1998 book examines key seventeenth-century writers in the context of their common interest in the philosophical tradition of Stoicism.

Author : Peter France
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198183593
Total Pages : 680 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation written by Peter France and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Guide offers both an essential reference work for students of English and comparative literature and a stimulating overview of literary translation in English."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Geoffrey Bullough
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231088954
Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare written by Geoffrey Bullough and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosalind Miles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351997939
Total Pages : 281 pages
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Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Rosalind Miles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light. Critics traditionally exalted Shakespeare, at Jonson’s expense. In this biography, first published in 1986, the author presents a full and accurate account of Jonson’s life in modern times. Rosalind Miles follows Jonson from his obscure beginnings to his burial in Westminster Abbey, as the first Poet Laureate, in 1637. Her Jonson is vivid and vigorous, equally alive in his life and in his work. This title will be of interest to students of history, English literature and Renaissance drama.