Milton's Latin Poems

by Slavitt, David R.; Teskey, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9781421400792
• ISBN10: 1421400790
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

In this collection, esteemed poet and translator David R. Slavitt brings to life John Milton's Latin poetry with deft, imaginative modern English translations.While Milton is recognized as one of the most learned English poets in history, his Latin poetry is less well known. Slavitt's careful rendering brings Milton's Latin poems -- many written in his late teens -- into the present. He keeps true to the style of the originals, showing Milton's maturing poetic voice and the freedom he found working in Latin.On the Gunpowder PlotO, sly Guy Fawkes, you plotted against your king and the British lords, but did you intend to be kindand make up for your malice in this thing with at least a show of piety? Do we findan intention, perhaps, of sending the members of court up to the sky in a chariot made of firethe way Elijah traveled. Or do I distort the simple wickedness of your desire?Featuring an introduction by Gordon Teskey, this comprehensive English-language collection of Milton's Latin poems pays due respect to a master. Poetry lovers, Milton fans, and scholars of either will welcome, enjoy, and learn from this work.

Author Biography

David R. Slavitt, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has published more than ninety books. He is coeditor of the Johns Hopkins Complete Roman Drama in Translation series and the Penn Greek Drama series. His translations include The Latin Eclogues, The Book of Lamentations, and The Voyage of the Argo, all published by Johns Hopkins. Gordon Teskey is a professor of American and English literature at Harvard University and the author of Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
The Book of Elegies
The First Elegy: To Charles Diodati	p. 3
The Second Elegy: On the Death of the Cambridge University Beadle	p. 6
The Third Elegy: On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester	p. 7
The Fourth Elegy: To His Tutor, Thomas Young, Now Serving as Chaplain to the English Merchants at Hamburg	p. 10
The Fifth Elegy: On the Approach of Spring	p. 15
The Sixth Elegy: To Charles Diodati, Staying in the Country	p. 20
The Seventh Elegy: ôNot Yet, O Gentle Venusö	p. 24
The Epigrams
On the Gunpowder Plot	p. 31
On the Same	p. 31
On the Same	p. 31
On the Inventor of Gunpowder	p. 32
To Leonora, Singing at Rome	p. 32
To the Same	p. 31
Fable of the Peasant and the Landlord	p. 33
On Salmasius	p. 33
The Book of the Woods
On the Death of the Vice Chancellor, a Physician	p. 37
On the Fifth of November	p. 40
On the Death of the Bishop of Ely	p. 47
That Nature Does Not Suffer from Old Age	p. 49
The Platonic Idea as Understood by Aristotle	p. 52
To My Father	p. 54
To Salzilli, the Roman Poet, When He Was Ill	p. 58
Manso	p. 60
Damon's Epitaph	p. 64
To John Rouse, Librarian of Oxford University	p. 73
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