04527nam 2200829 450 991081309980332120230912144350.01-282-00301-197866120030111-4426-7300-110.3138/9781442673007(CKB)2420000000003939(EBL)3250386(SSID)ssj0000291738(PQKBManifestationID)12113913(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000291738(PQKBWorkID)10254102(PQKB)11167254(CaPaEBR)417565(CaBNvSL)thg00600090(DE-B1597)464326(OCoLC)946712734(DE-B1597)9781442673007(Au-PeEL)EBL4671350(CaPaEBR)ebr11257066(OCoLC)958513522(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/k19z0f(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/417565(MiAaPQ)EBC4671350(OCoLC)1380845214(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104581(MiAaPQ)EBC3250386(EXLCZ)99242000000000393920160926h19941994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe classical tradition in operation Chaucer / Virgil, Shakespeare / Plautus, Pope / Horace, Tennyson / Lucretius, Pound / Propertius /Niall RuddToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1994.©19941 online resource (199 p.)Robson Classical LecturesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-0570-5 Includes bibliographical references.Foreword -- Preface -- Chaucer and Virgil -- Shakespeare and Plautus -- Pope and Horace -- Tennyson and Lucretius -- Pound and Propertius -- Professor Hale and Homage as a document of cultural transition.In these five essays Niall Rudd presents an eclectic set of comparisons between certain ancient authors and later English writers ranging from Chaucer to Pound. He shows how five English writers consciously used and adapted classical works, and in so doing he illuminates both the classical authors and their English imitators and admirers. Readable translations and summaries of the Latin sources make these stimulating studies accessible even to scholars and students with little or no Latin.The first essay compares Chaucer's treatment of Dido in The House of Fame and The Legend of Good Women with Virgil's presentation of Dido in the Aeneid, and Ovid's in Heroides 7. The second essay, comparing Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors with Plautus' Menaechmi, demonstrates how Shakespeare, weaving Roman farce into the framework of Hellenistic romance, developed both genres into something richer and more complex. The third essay on Pope's Epistle to Augustus shows his conversion of Horace's praise of Augustus into an anti-royalist attack on George II. In the fourth essay, Rudd discusses how much of Tennyson's Lucretius is invented and imported by Tennyson as a way of externalizing the inner conflicts he experienced in the age of doubt. The final essay, on Pound and Propertius, looks at Pound's representation of the Latin poet in Homage to Sextus Propertius, specifically in the areas of imperial politics, love, and language.In his preface Rudd writes: 'Everyone knows of the Classical Tradition - comprehending it is another matter.' This book brings it closer to our understanding.Robson classical lectures.English literatureRoman influencesEnglish literatureHistory and criticismComparative literatureEnglish and LatinComparative literatureLatin and EnglishClassicismGreat BritainRomeIn literatureCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. English literatureRoman influences.English literatureHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureEnglish and Latin.Comparative literatureLatin and English.Classicism821.009142Rudd Niall186545MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813099803321Classical tradition in operation864654UNINA