TY - BOOK ID - 77897810 TI - The classical tradition in operation : Chaucer / Virgil, Shakespeare / Plautus, Pope / Horace, Tennyson / Lucretius, Pound / Propertius PY - 1994 SN - 1282003011 9786612003011 1442673001 9781442673007 9781282003019 0802005705 9780802005700 PB - Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Comparative literature KW - Classicism KW - Roman influences. KW - History and criticism. KW - English and Latin. KW - Latin and English. KW - Rome KW - In literature. KW - English poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Roman influences KW - Literature [Comparative ] KW - English and Latin KW - Latin and English UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77897810 AB - 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. ER -