Sporting with the Classics
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Sporting with the Classics

The Latin Poetry of William Dillingham Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 100, Part 1)

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Sporting with the Classics

The Latin Poetry of William Dillingham Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 100, Part 1)

About this book

Focuses on the original Latin poetry of William Dillingham, a 17th-cent. editor, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge Univ. It does so in an attempt to disprove claims that Dillingham's talent lay in criticism rather than in original composition, and that his Latin verse shows his complete independence of the old school of classical imitation. This study highlights both the classical and the contemporary intertexts with which this hitherto neglected poetry engages. This highly talented verse "sports" with the classics in several ways: first in its self-consciously interaction with the Latin poets Virgil and Ovid; second in its appropriation of a classical world and its linguistic medium to describe such 17th-cent. sports or pastimes as bowling, horticulture, and bell-ringing.

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Table of contents

  1. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  2. CONTENTS
  3. PREFACE
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. Chapter 1 Sporting with the Classics: Suleianum
  7. Chapter 2 Ringing Classical Bells: Campanae Undellenses
  8. Chapter 3 Two Classical Fables? From Avicula to Nemesis
  9. Chapter 4 A Horticultural Metamorphosis: Sepes Hortensis
  10. APPENDIX 1 WILLIAM DILLINGHAM'S LATIN POETRY LATIN TEXT AND FACING ENGLISH TRANSLATION1
  11. APPENDIX 2 SULEY BOWLING GREENE (Bodl. MS Eng. Misc. d.1, ff 45-47)
  12. APPENDIX 3 DILLINGHAM'S OCCASIONAL LATIN VERSE
  13. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  14. INDEX NOMINUM