- Paperback: 292 pages
- Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association; 1st edition edition (7 May 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0947623736
- ISBN-13: 978-0947623739
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,279,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) was known in his lifetime as the Christian Horace. He was one of the most famous Neo-Latin poets of the Baroque, widely read, commented upon, and translated throughout Europe. He was nominated Poet Laureate by Pope Urban VIII. His Latin poetry was also read, translated, and imitated in England, especially from 1646 until the first half of the 19th century. The first edition of Sarbiewski's English translations, by George Hils, was published in 1646. From that time onwards, Sarbiewski was translated by a variety of poets ranging from Hils to such famous authors as Vaughan and Coleridge. His poetry was universally read in grammar schools and used as a medium of improving the knowledge of Latin during a period exceeding two centuries. Thanks to Sarbiewski, English poets started to imitate Horace, which was an important factor in overcoming the Pindaric tradition. Sarbiewski's oeuvre was also attractive owing to its immersion in various cultural traditions such as Stoicism, Ignatian spirituality, Platonism, and Hermeticism.
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This is an invaluable collection of translations for those of us interested in how the English (and, later, British) made sense of Continental writers and events. As the editors of these poems by an important Neo-Latin seventeenth-century Polish humanist and poet remark, the number of British who translated and admired the "Christian Horace," known to them as "Casimir," is astonishing. It is also a reminder that poets in England kept a sharp eye on Europe even though some modern English professors still remain incurious. The international Latin-reading community in which Casimir starred has now gone (although academic interest in it is growing), but in its day it was lively and significant. I recommend this volume all the more because it includes several women who translated Casimir (Sarbiewski, to give him his Polish name). Some of the poetry is quite lovely, although the later ones can be a bit flowery for later tastes. I could wish the editors had included the Latin originals too, although that would raise the price, but this is a rich volume.
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