Bøger af 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 engages. This highly talented verse "sports" with the classics in several ways: first in its self-consciously interaction with the Latin poets Virgil and Ovid; second in its appropriation of a classical world and its linguistic medium to describe such 17th-cent. sports or pastimes as bowling, horticulture, and bell-ringing.

This study examines the interplay of Latin and English in a selection of John Milton's neo-Latin writings. It argues that this interplay is indicative of an inherent bilingualism that proceeds hand-in-hand with a self-fashioning that is bicultural in essence. Interlingual flexibility ultimately proved central to the poet of Paradise Lost, an epic uniquely characterized by its Latinate vernacular and its vernacular Latinitas. Author Estelle Haan (Sheehan) is Professor of English and Neo-Latin Studies at The Queen's University of Belfast. She is a well-known and well-respected Neo-Latinist who has published several volumes with the American Philosophical Soc. and has recently edited Milton's Latin and Greek poetry for Oxford University Press.

Chapters: (1) Milton & the Accademia degli Svogliati; (2) Milton & the Accademia degli Apatisti; (3) Florentine "Written Encomiums" Antonion Francini, & Carlo Dati; (4) Patterns of "Amicitia" The Milton/Dati Correspondence: (i) Reconstructing a Lost Dati Epistle to Milton; (ii) The Dati Epistles of 1647-1648; (iii) A Paradise Regained?: Francesco, Rovai, Gabriello Chiabrera, & Dati's "Consolatio" to Milton; (5) Milton & the Accademia dei Fantastici: (i) Giovanni Salzilli's "Written Encomium"; & (ii) Milton's "Ad Salsillum"; (6) "Voice & Verse" Leonora Baroni, Milton, & Italian "Accademici"; (7) Milton & the Accademia degli Oziosi; (8) From "Angel" to "Angle" Manso & Milton; (9) "Mansus" & Italian Encomia of Manso; (10) "Mansueti...Chironis" Manso, the Tame Centaur; (11) Milton, Ariosto, & the Singing Swan; & (12) "Amicitia" & Biography. Appendix: Milton's Latin Poems of the Italian Journey. Biblo.

In this volume, Estelle Haan, one of the world's finest neo-Latinists, makes an important contribution to the study of so often neglected poetry. She uses context & commentary to create an unprecedented understanding of Joseph Addison's poetry. Haan adds to the corpus of neo-Latin poetry, & also offers to non-Latinists with an interest in Addison access to products of his creative imagination that were hitherto unavailable because of the language barrier. The inclusion of material unkonwn to previous Addison editors considerably enhances the volume's value. Illustrations.

This book recuperates the Latin poetry of Vincent Bourne by exploring the poet's unique techniques of self-fashioning that distinguish him from his neo-Latin forebears & contemporaries. Haan is the UK's most eminent neo-Latinist. Through close & perceptive analysis of Bourne's negotiation of poetic identity, Haan argues in new ways for the blend of classicism & Romanticism informing his marginalized status. She capitalizes on the familiarity with other 18th-cent. English poets about whom she has previously written (Cowper, Gray, & Addison) & she makes use of contemporary literary theory without becoming dependent on any single approach or disfiguring her writing with critical jargon. The connections with English-language poets that Haan adduces will be a very considerable resource for students of vernacular poetry.

"This study examines the impact of Rome and its vibrant culture upon Milton in the course of two two-monthly sojourns in the city in 1638-1639. Focusing on his neo-Latin writings pertaining to that period ("Ad Salsillum," the three Latin epigrams in praise of the soprano Leonora Baroni, and Epistola Familiaris 9, addressed to Lucas Holstenius), it presents new evidence of the academic, literary, and musical contexts surrounding Milton's pro-active integration into seicento Rome. Highlighting Milton's self-fashioning as one who was hospitably embraced by Catholic Rome, it traces his networking with distinguished Italian humanists (upon whom he left no slight an impression)"--

John Milton's 100-line hexameter poem Mansus is, on first impression, merely a poem of praise for Giovanni Battista Manso, the old Neapolitan nobleman and patron of poets whom Milton met on his Italian journey in 1638-1639. But in the first book devoted solely to Mansus, arguably the most accomplished of Milton's neo-Latin writings pertaining to his Italian period, Estelle Haan offers a series of fresh interpretations of the poem.Situating Mansus alongside Milton's seemingly voracious reading of contemporary Italian literature while abroad, Haan assesses the poem's academic, religious, topographical, and linguistic contexts and analyzes its classical, neo-Latin, Italian, and English intertexts. Read in these wider contexts, Mansus emerges as a polyvocal poem, a text about other texts-it embraces not only its addressee's Latin encomium composed in Milton's honor, but also, and essentially, Manso's published (and, possibly, unpublished) works. Haan demonstrates how Milton's poem draws upon the writings of two Italian poets who also benefitted from Manso's care and patronage, namely, Torquato Tasso and Giambattista Marino. Like them, Milton is the recipient of Manso's hospitality and courtesy and he unabashedly aligns his Neapolitan experience with theirs.Milton, paying homage to Manso's hospitality and literary work in Mansus, cleverly experiments with genre and language and simultaneously showcases his vast and intimate knowledge of Italian literature, gained while on Neapolitan soil. In her insightful study of Mansus, Haan not only shows how Milton assumes a place of his own in a Neapolitan world but also maps the literary import of Naples onto Milton during the time of his sojourn and beyond.