{"product_id":"the-latin-poetry-of-thomas-gray-9781350419872","title":"The Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the first full-scale edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduction and comprehensive commentary that situate Gray's Latin verse in relation to his vernacular poetry, epistolary correspondence, and, especially, his appropriation of classical and Neo-Latin literature.\u003c\/b\u003eThis book also traces hitherto unlocated manuscripts of several of his Latin poems, and includes an \u003ci\u003eeditio princeps\u003c\/i\u003eof recently discovered Latin verses pertaining to his Neapolitan sojourn.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Gray's Latin poetry presents an illuminating portrait of the artist as a young man, mapping his growth and development from his Etonian days to his undergraduate years at Cambridge University, to his continental journey and his return to England. Impressively eclectic in its scope and tone, it ranges from experimental renderings of English, Greek and Italian verse to more strikingly original pieces, including poetic reinterpretations of Alexander Pope's \u003ci\u003eEssay on Man\u003c\/i\u003eand John Locke's \u003ci\u003eAn Essay Concerning Humane Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e. Gray looks back to a classical past, offering imaginative re-readings of Lucretius, Virgil and Horace. At the same time, his Latin verse is firmly rooted in a postclassical world. At its heart is the theme of presences, whether sacred, imagined, absent or remembered, conveyed with a linguistic ingenuity that facilitates the encoding of homoeroticism in a Neo-Latin language of sensibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEstelle Haan \u003c\/b\u003eis Emerita Professor of English and Neo-Latin Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She is author or editor of many books, including\u003ci\u003e John Milton Among the Neapolitans: Mansus-Contexts, Texts, Intertexts\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) and \u003ci\u003eJohn Milton: Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus and Uncollected Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50870558687506,"sku":"9781350419872","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_548de654-4794-48da-a0da-78bfa6fea852.jpg?v=1737809331","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-latin-poetry-of-thomas-gray-9781350419872","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}