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

by Estelle Haan

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606180010
• ISBN13: 9781606180013
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 123 Pages