English Literature and Ancient Languages

by Kenneth Haynes

Overview

This is a study of the presence of Greek and Latin in British literature since the Renaissance. While the influence of Greek and Roman literature on British literature has been extensively surveyed, the role of those ancient languages themselves within modern British literature has only begun to be studied. This book is a study of the literary representation and dramatization of English in contact with Greek and Latin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199212125
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/14/2007
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Kenneth Haynes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is co-editor of Horace in English (Penguin 1996) and of the first scholarly editions of two major works by Swinburne (forthcoming from Penguin). He is also co-editor, with Peter France, of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Volume 4: 1790-1890 (forthcoming).

Table of Contents

Preface1. Multilingualism in Literature2. Varieties of Language Purism3. The Interference of Latin with English Literature4. Greek Influence on English Poetry5. Apollo, Dionysus, and Nineteenth-Century English and German Poetry