LATN 025. Latin Poetry and the English Renaissance

Ben Jonson said that Shakespeare had “small Latin and less Greek,” but all products of the Elizabethan grammar schools were steeped in Latin literature. This course will explore some of their seminal Latin texts, including Ovid’s Amores; Horace’s Odes, and Vergil’s Eclogues. We will also read some of the English poems most directly influenced by these Latin works, by poets such as Donne, Spenser, Marvell, Lovelace, Herrick, Rochester, and Milton.
Humanities.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Classics
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics

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