Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition. - MOUL, Victoria,
KORTE INHOUD
'This study sets out to highlight the pervasive influence of Horace on Jonson. Horace, Moul argues, was a lens through which other authors, ancient and modern, were refracted: ?even when Jonson uses his poetry to think about and engage with other authors, he so often does so in juxtaposition, contention or conversation with an Horatian voice? (p. 6). This voice, moreover, has been obscured by literary history. The ?Horatian voice? as Jonson constructed it is neither the voice echoed by Jonson?s acolytes, the self-styled ?Sons of Ben?, nor the voice to which modern classicists tend to listen: ?Jonson, in accord with his time and culture as well as his own personality, takes Horace seriously in all the ways that we, currently, find hardest to appreciate - as a laureate poet of politicised praise, as a literary critic, as a moralist and as a friend? (p. 12). The fifth chapter is the most interesting. It treats Jonson as a translator, and then as an object of translation, beginning with an assessment of his Engli...
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Cambridge, 2015. 1st paperback ed. 248p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: MOUL, Victoria,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2015] [Titel: Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition.]
