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

Product Description: The monsters are out there . . . you just know it . . . lurking around corners, hiding where you’d least expect them. These fast-paced, thrilling books explore legends and myths about aliens, vampires, ghosts, and werewolves. They’re filled with fantastical illustrations, photos – and location maps, just in case your young readers care to become monster hunters, too! The metallic ink and embossed eyes will draw the reader into these exciting titles...read more

Product Description: Milton’s early commentators—Henry Todd, Thomas Newton, Joseph Addison, and others—not only knew their classics well, they took them seriously as models of literary excellence and repositories of values. In the twentieth century, however, the classics have become mere “background...read more

Although a third of his plays are set in the ancient world and he constantly used classical mythology, history, and ideas, Shakespeare received a simple grammar school education and did not have a scholar's knowledge of the classics. The critical implications of this are the subject of "Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity". Against a recent academic tendency to exaggerate Shakespeare's learning, the authors investigate how he used his comparatively restricted knowledge to create, for example, an unusually convincing picture of Rome, and analyze, by presenting us with careful readings of specific passages, the styles Shakespeare employed under the influence of classical writers, especially Ovid, Seneca, and (in translation) Homer and Plutarch.

Product Description: By comparing Catullus to English lyricists of the 16th and early 17th centuries, Jacob Blevins here identifies a common function of the genre: lyric love poetry, he argues, provides the space in which speakers attempt to situate their self-identity among dominant cultural ideologies and individual desires...read more

In this book Mr. Martindale examines the use Milton made of ancient poets, and the way they influenced his style. Some surprising ingredients in the style of ^IParadise Lost are uncoveredóHorace, for example.The book is a rare combination of scholarship, both classical and English, and critical judgment.^R

Product Description: Book by Walker, Lewis (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines the ways in which Dryden uses Latin in his poetry and his critical writing, first through quotation and allusion, and second through formal translation. In following the varied traces of Rome in the texture of Dryden's writing, and by emphasizing his continual engagement with mutability and metamorphosis, this book argues the case for Dryden as a thoughtful, humanistic poet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Mulryan, John

Product Description: Mr. Loftis provides the first comprehensive account of the relationship of restoration drama to the Spanish drama of the Golden Age.

Product Description: Book by Wheeler, Charles Francis