A Cockney Catullus

The Reception of Catullus in Romantic Britain, 1795-1821
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-874488-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

Catullus, one of the most Hellenizing, scandalous, and emotionally expressive of the Roman poets, burst onto the British cultural scene during the Romantic era. It was not until this socially, politically, and culturally explosive epoch, with its mania for all things Greek, that Catullus' work was first fully translated into English and played a key role in the countercultural and commercially driven classicism of the time. Previously marginalized on the traditional eighteenth-century curriculum as a charming but debauched minor love poet, Catullus was discovered as a major poetic voice in the late Georgian era by reformist emulators-especially in the so-called Cockney School-and won widespread respect. In this volume, Henry Stead pioneers a new way of understanding the key role Catullus played in shaping Romanticism by examining major literary engagements with Catullus, from John Nott of Bristol's pioneering book-length bilingual edition (1795), to George Lamb's polished verse translation (1821). He identifies the influence of Catullus' poetry in the work of numerous Romantic-era literary and political figures, including Byron, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hunt, Canning, Brougham, and Gifford, demonstrating the degree of its cultural penetration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stead, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- List of Illustrations

- List of Abbreviations

- Select Timeline of Catullan Engagement

- Introduction

- 1: Catullus Unchained: The Translations of John Nott and George Lamb

- 2: Catullus 64 in Translation and Allusion

- i. Translating 64: C.A. Elton and Frank Sayers

- ii. Symbolic Allusion: T.L. Peacock, Leigh Hunt, and Keats

- 3: Non-Cockney Responses to Catullus

- i. W.S. Landor, Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron

- ii. The Anti-Jacobinical Catullus

- 4: Catullus The Reformer: Leigh Hunt's Reception

- 5: Keats's Catullan Samphire

- Conclusion

- Appendix

- Select Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henry Stead is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow working within the field of classical reception studies at the Open University (English and Classical Studies).