Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature

Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK, and President of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies. She has published a number of articles on early modern Latin literature and co-edited the collected volume Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (Bloomsbury, 2012).L. B. T. Houghton teaches Classics at Rugby School and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London, UK. He is the author of Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance (2019), and is a former Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies.Lucy R. Nicholas is a Teaching Fellow in Classics at King’s College London and the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK. She has published on Roger Ascham and written on other early modern Latin authors, including Thomas More and Walter Haddon. She co-edited Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres (2016). She is the Treasurer of the Society for Neo-Latin Studies.

An anthology of British Neo-Latin was long overdue. Now we have it. Comprehensive in its range, informative and perceptive in its presentation of the single texts, this book is a model of its kind.

• List of Illustrations List of ContributorsPreface INTRODUCTION(L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK and Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 1 Neo-Latin as a Literary Medium 2 British Neo-Latin Literature 3 Overview of Neo-Latin Literary Genres 4 Aims and Coverage of this Volume 5 Latin Texts: Sources and Conventions 6 Further Reading TEXTS 1 Utopia: Elsewhere and NowhereThomas More (1478–1535), Extracts from Utopia (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 2 An Early Tudor Antiquarian at BathJohn Leland (c. 1503–1552), De thermis Britannicis (Andrew W. Taylor, University of Cambridge, UK) 3 The Nature of the UniverseGeorge Buchanan (1506–1582), De sphaera 1.1–51 (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK) 4 A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth I’s Coronation in VerseWalter Haddon (1515–1572), In … Elisabethae regimen (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 5 The Latin University Orations of Queen Elizabeth IQueen Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Speeches of 1566 and 1592 (Sarah Knight, University of Leicester, UK) 6 Female Funerary VerseElizabeth Hoby, Lady Russell (1540–1609), Epitaphic Poems (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL and UCL, UK) 7 On Writing about BritainWilliam Camden (1551–1623), Prefatory Letter to Britannia (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK) 8 A Birthday Poem for ChristAdam King (c. 1560–1620), Genethliacon Iesu Christi (c. 1586) (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK) 9 On Poetry, Politics and ReligionJohn Owen (c. 1560–1622), Selection of Epigrams (Gesine Manuwald, UCL, UK) 10 A Comic ExorcismGeorge Ruggle (1575–1622), Ignoramus IV 11 (Daniel Hadas, KCL, UK) 11 ‘Dazel’d thus with height of place’: An English Lyric in Two Latin VersionsEnglish: Henry Wotton (1568–1639); Latin: Anonymous [Georg Weckherlin (1584–1653)?] (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK)12 A Meeting in MauritaniaJohn Barclay (1582–1621), Argenis, Book 5, Chapter 8 (9) (Jacqueline Glomski, UCL, UK) 13 The Gunpowder PlotJohn Milton (1608–1674), In Quintum Novembris (Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK) 14 A Frost Fair on the ThamesWilliam Baker, Descriptio Brumae (1634/5) (George Pounder, Glenalmond College, Scotland) 15 The Beauty and Horror of the MountainsThomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715), Telluris theoria sacra 1.1.9 (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria) 16 A Satire on the Bishop of SalisburyAnonymous (Thomas Brown?), In Episcopum Quendam (c. 1689) (Victoria Moul, KCL, UK) 17 A View of the Scottish HighlandsJames Philp (1656/7–c. 1713), Grameid 3.10–36 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK)18 Thomas Gray Prophesies Space TravelThomas Gray (1716–1771), Luna habitabilis 51–72, 78–95 (L. B. T. Houghton, UCL, UK) Index