A Distinct Mode of Pastoral in Elizabethan Cambridge: Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1546-1611), Ecloga Daphnis

Sharon Van Dijk

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Abstract

This chapter presents in full the Ecloga Daphnis by Giles Fletcher the Elder (1546–1611). This text is included in a Cambridge commemorative collection created to mark the passing of Nicholas Carr (d. 1568), who had been Regius Professor of Greek from 1551 to 1564. It is representative of Fletcher's Cambridge pastoral and is significant for the history of Anglo-Latin and English pastoral, not least because it constitutes an example of Cambridge pastoral that precedes that of Edmund Spenser and John Milton. Written by a young poet and Greek scholar, the eclogue also illustrates the increasingly widespread currency of occasional verse within the community of university poets.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAn Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities
EditorsGesine Manuwald, Lucy R. Nicholas
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Chapter4
Pages119-136
Number of pages18
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781350160279 (PDF), 9781350160286 (Epub & Mobi)
ISBN (Print)9781350160255, 9781350160262
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameBloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies

Keywords

  • commemorative verse
  • occasional poetry
  • Neo-Latin eclogue
  • Cambridge
  • Greek scholarship
  • medicine

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