Description: An annotated Neo-Latin text and translation of the Latin poetry of the 18th-century poet Thomas Gray.
Brief description: Estelle Haan is Emerita Professor of English and Neo-Latin Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She is author or editor of many books, including John Milton Among the Neapolitans: Mansus-Contexts, Texts, Intertexts (2023) and John Milton: Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus and Uncollected Letters (2019).
Review Quotes:
"Haan's volume presents the most detailed and comprehensive treatment of Gray's Latin compositions ever attempted, and it is likely to remain the standard edition for a long time." --International Journal of the Classical Tradition
"It is this intellectual climate of Gray's Latin poetry that recommends itself to our time, and that demands a scholarly edition of his verse in Latin. Finally we have it. Estelle Haan has carried out the work magnificently, and deserves admiring thanks." --Translation and Literature "This is an impressive book which makes available for the first time a full scholarly edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry. The translations are of a consistently high quality, the contextual materials are always clear, concise and helpful, and the annotations are impressively thorough." --Michael G. Brennan, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Leeds, UK "The Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray provides unique insights into the literary culture of this acclaimed English poet. This first full-scale edition of his Latin poems reveals in expert fashion both their literary merits and their cultural and historical significance." --Dr. Marc Laureys, Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin Philology, University of Bonn, Germany