By J. W. Binns
Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – most of these poets, among them spanning the interval from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a considerable physique of Latin verse as well as their better-known English poetry, representing a part of the gigantic and virtually unexplored physique of Neo-Latin literature which appealed to a global examining public all through Europe.
The Latin poetry of those English poets is of specific curiosity whilst it really is set opposed to the historical past in their writings of their personal tongue: this assortment examines the level to which our judgment of a poet is altered via an knowledge of his Latin works. In a few we discover prefigured topics that have been later taken care of of their English verse; others wrote Latin poetry all through their lives and provides facts of their Latin poetry of pursuits which don't locate expression of their English compositions. This quantity is a precious source for college kids of either Latin and English literature.
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