Sporting with the Classics: The Latin Poetry of William Dillingham Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 100, Part 1) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781606180013)

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.

Author: Estelle Haan
ISBN-10: 1606180010
ISBN-13: 9781606180013
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 123
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 273