Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gillespie, Stuart
• Marshall, C. W.

Titel

After Strada: English responses to Strada’s Nightingale (Prolusiones 2.6), with texts of four previously unprinted versions

Ist Teil von

• Latin Poetry and Its Reception, 2021, p.192-215

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter offers a survey of a surprisingly extensive, and completely forgotten, sequence of responses to this early seventeenth-century Latin poem in the English verse tradition, extending to major as well as minor figures, and to unprinted as well as printed versions, over a long period to the end of the C18. One thing that interests me is the range of forms the responses take: translation, imitation, adaptation, variation, and others belonging to no set mode. This chapter offers a survey of a surprisingly extensive, and completely forgotten, sequence of responses to this early seventeenth-century Latin poem in the English verse tradition, extending to major as well as minor figures, and to unprinted as well as printed versions. The Italian Jesuit’s book offered a wealth of observations, anecdotes, stories, and exercises on style and rhetoric for advanced students and teachers of Latin. It went through many editions, including an early English printing, until well into the eighteenth century. Warton became Oxford Professor of Poetry, largely, it is said, because his Jacobite sympathies made him popular in the university. He wrote occasional verse but published no collection of it. His son edited such a collection after his death, in 1748, but it did not include his Strada version even though other poems translated from Latin originals are found in it.