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Product Description: The influence of the Roman poet Horace on Ben Jonson has often been acknowledged, but never fully explored. Discussing Jonson's Horatianism in detail, this study also places Jonson's densely intertextual relationship with Horace's Latin text within the broader context of his complex negotiations with a range of other 'rivals' to the Horatian model including Pindar, Seneca, Juvenal and Martial...read more
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9780521117425 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2010, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The influence of the Roman poet Horace on Ben Jonson has often been acknowledged, but never fully explored.

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Product Description: Kevis Goodman traces connections between georgic verse and developments in other spheres that were placing unprecedented emphasis on mediation from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. She expands the subject of the Georgic to broader areas of literary and cultural study--including the history of the feelings, print culture, and early scientific technology...read more
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9780521831680 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2004, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Kevis Goodman traces connections between georgic verse and developments in other spheres that were placing unprecedented emphasis on mediation from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries.

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9780521057295 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2008), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Kevis Goodman traces connections between georgic verse and developments in other spheres that were placing unprecedented emphasis on mediation from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries.

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Product Description: Reassessing Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist, Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as "a man of the theatre" by reclaiming his original standing as an early modern author. Cheney considers him as a working dramatist who composed extraordinary poems and traces Shakespeare's literary origins to his favorite author, Ovid...read more
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9780521839235 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2004, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Reassessing Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist, Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as "a man of the theatre" by reclaiming his original standing as an early modern author.

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9780521072250 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 14, 2008), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Reassessing Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist, Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as "a man of the theatre" by reclaiming his original standing as an early modern author.

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Product Description: While there is little evidence of formal rhetorical instruction in Anglo-Saxon England, traditional Old English poetry clearly shows the influence of Latin rhetoric. Verse and Virtuosity demonstrates how Old English poets imitated and adapted the methods of Latin literature, and, in particular, the works of the Christian Latin authors they had studied at school...read more
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9780802091574 | Univ of Toronto Pr, May 10, 2008, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: While there is little evidence of formal rhetorical instruction in Anglo-Saxon England, traditional Old English poetry clearly shows the influence of Latin rhetoric.

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Product Description: What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world? What can we learn from the annotations accumulated by a single manuscript as it moved among new institutions and readerships? In this study Christopher Baswell takes as his model Virgil's Aeneid, and the many kinds of appeal it held for the culture of the Middle Ages...read more
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9780521462945 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world?

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9780521027083 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2006), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world?

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9780871699527 | Amer Philosophical Society, February 1, 2005, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: In Spenser and Ovid, Syrithe Pugh gives the first sustained account of Ovid's presence in the Spenser canon, uncovering new evidence to reveal the thematic and formal debts many of Spenser's poems owe to Ovid, particularly when considered in the light of an informed understanding of all of Ovid's work...read more
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9780754639053 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, February 1, 2005, cover price $124.95 | About this edition: In Spenser and Ovid, Syrithe Pugh gives the first sustained account of Ovid's presence in the Spenser canon, uncovering new evidence to reveal the thematic and formal debts many of Spenser's poems owe to Ovid, particularly when considered in the light of an informed understanding of all of Ovid's work.

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Product Description: Dr. Herold, in a searching and emotionally-engaged study, finds the "missing links" in the history of Western tragedy. She traces the deep and multi-layered currents of tragic thought that passed from the Greco-Roman into the medieval Christian world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780773468559 | Edwin Mellen Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Dr.

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Product Description: In the 1640's, John Milton led a group of students through an extensive curriculum of ancient authors. In Milton Among the Romans, DuRocher provides the first scholarly study of Milton's Latin tutorial by tracing the reshaping of Roman ideas and expressions in Milton's poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780820703282 | Duquesne Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: In the 1640's, John Milton led a group of students through an extensive curriculum of ancient authors.

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Product Description: This collection of Virgil's poetry is part of the "New Poets in Translation" series, which offers verse translations of major classical works.
By K. W. Gransden (editor) and Virgil
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9780140423860 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This collection of Virgil's poetry is part of the "New Poets in Translation" series, which offers verse translations of major classical works.

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Product Description: Featuring the work of Horace, this is part of the "Poets in Translation" series which offers the verse translations of major European poets through the ages.
By D. S. Carne-Ross (editor), Kenneth Haynes (editor) and Horace
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9780140423877 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Featuring the work of Horace, this is part of the "Poets in Translation" series which offers the verse translations of major European poets through the ages.

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Product Description: Dryden defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters. This book looks at Dryden's literary relationships with Ben Jonson and with French authors (notably Corneille); at issues raised by the work thought to be his greatest by Romantic and contemporary readers, Fables Ancient and Modern; and at Samuel Johnson's Life of Dryden...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521441117 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: Dryden defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters.

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9780802059550 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $65.00

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By Andrew Rutherford (editor)
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9780312047337 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 1, 1991, cover price $45.00

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9780838751480 | Bucknell Univ Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $32.50

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9780824042448 | Taylor & Francis, December 1, 1988, cover price $35.00

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9780801418129 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: Pope printed his Imitations of Horace alongside the original Horatian poems on which they were based, and to understand these works fully it is necessary to compare in detail each Imitation with its original. This is the first book to do so...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521266956 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1985, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Pope printed his Imitations of Horace alongside the original Horatian poems on which they were based, and to understand these works fully it is necessary to compare in detail each Imitation with its original.

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Product Description: The Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and complexity of Augustan poetry. It takes in a broad range of writers from the Restoration to the Regency, from Rochester and Dryden to Cowper and Crabbe, and shows the essential connections between them...read more
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9780521277235 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1985, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: The Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and complexity of Augustan poetry.

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Product Description: The Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and complexity of Augustan poetry. It takes in a broad range of writers from the Restoration to the Regency, from Rochester and Dryden to Cowper and Crabbe, and shows the essential connections between them...read more
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9780521258258 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1985, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and complexity of Augustan poetry.

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9780404078096 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1979, cover price $12.50

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9780300022803 | Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $22.50

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9780300016208 | Yale Univ Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $67.50

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By Frank H. Ellis (editor)
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9780300017724 | Yale Univ Pr, May 1, 1975, cover price $75.00

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Product Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket, covers worn, pen and pencil marks in text.
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9780198116875 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1970, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy.

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