Defensio Prima and the Latin Poets
Contribuinte(s) |
McDowell, Nicholas Smith, Nigel |
---|---|
Data(s) |
2009
|
Resumo |
This chapter, in a prize-winning volume, examines ways in which Milton’s recourse to Latin poetry in Defensio Prima serves a much deeper purpose than that of merely illustrating or lending authority to his argument. Rather, it is argued, the defence engages with a variety of Latin intertexts (Plautus, Terence, Horace, Petronius), which in turn give birth to a range of dramatis personae, with whom Salmasius is ironically and somewhat kaleidoscopically equated. This methodology lends particular force to Milton’s rhetoric of invective whilst hopefully laying to rest the fallacy that his Latin prose writings were writing during a period of ‘poetic inactivity.’ For this is a prose work that is poetically as well as politically aware. <br/> <br/> <br/> |
Identificador | |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Oxford University Press |
Direitos |
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
Fonte |
Haan , E 2009 , Defensio Prima and the Latin Poets . in N McDowell & N Smith (eds) , The Oxford Handbook of Milton Winner of the Irene Samuel Memorial Award of the Milton Society of America . Oxford Handbooks of Literature , Oxford University Press , Oxford , pp. 291-304 . DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697885.013.0016 |
Tipo |
contributionToPeriodical |