Juvenal in English

Name: Juvenal in English
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ISBN: 9780140446562

ISBN-10: 0140446567

ISBN-13: 9780140446562

Edition: 2001

Authors: Juvenal, Martin Winkler, Martin Winkler

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This anthology documents the wide variety of translations, adaptations and imitations of Juvenal in English poetry from the 16th century to 2000. Also includes works by Wordsworth, Lowell and Jonson.

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List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.94" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

The 16 Satires (c.110--127) of Juvenal, which contain a vivid picture of contemporary Rome under the Empire, have seldom been equaled as biting diatribes. The satire was the only literary form that the Romans did not copy from the Greeks. Horace merely used it for humorous comment on human folly. Juvenal's invectives in powerful hexameters, exact and epigrammatic, were aimed at lax and luxurious society, tyranny (Domitian's), criminal excesses, and the immorality of women. Juvenal was so sparing of autobiographical detail that we know very little of his life. He was desperately poor at one time and may have been an important magistrate at another. His influence was great in the Middle Ages;…

Introduction
Chronology: Rome at the Time of Juvenal
Dryden on Juvenal
Further Reading
Agenst Gamesche	p. 3
Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?	p. 4
from A Fig for Momus: Satyre 3	p. 8
Satyre 4: To a Deere Friend Lately Given over to Covetousnesse	p. 10
Virgidemiae IV.1, IV.3, IV.7, V.1, V.2	p. 13
from The scourge of Villanie: Proemium in librum primum	p. 22
Satyre I: Fronti nulla fides	p. 22
Proemium in librum tertium	p. 26
from Skialetheia; or, A Shadowe of Truth: Satyre preludium	p. 27
Satyra quinta	p. 28
Every Man out of His Humour (opening scene)	p. 33
The Poetaster	p. 34
Sejanus His Fall	p. 34
The First Satyre of Juvenall	p. 39
In Satyrum	p. 42
That Which Seemes Best in Worst: Exprest in a Paraphrastical Transcript of Juvenal's Tenth Satyre	p. 44
Juvenal. Sat, 10	p. 47
A Just Reproofe of a Romane Smell-Feast: Being the Fifth Satyre of Juvenall	p. 54
D. Iunius Juvenal His Second Satyr	p. 59
The Second Satyr of Juvenal	p. 61
The Ninth Satyr of Juvenal	p. 62
Juvenal's Tenth Satyre Translated	p. 66
Satyre XIII	p. 71
Satyre XV	p. 72
The Wish, Being the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal Periphrastically Rendered in Pindarick Verse	p. 77
A Satyr, in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal	p. 83
The Thirteenth Satyr of Juvenal, Imitated	p. 93
Juvenalis redivivus; or, The First Satyr of Juvenal Taught to Speak Plain English: A Poem	p. 99
The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal Done into English Verse	p. 102
Juvenal's Thirteenth Satyr	p. 106
Juvenal's Tenth Satyr, Made English	p. 111
To My Ingenious Friend, Mr. Henry Higden, Esq; on His Translation of the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal	p. 115
The Henry Higden, Esq; on His Translation of the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal	p. 116
To H. Higden, Esq; on His Modern Way of Translating Juvenal's Tenth Satire	p. 119
The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal	p. 122
A Hint from the Beginning of the Third Satyr of Juvenal	p. 125
Satyr on the Poets, in Imitation of the Seventh Satyr of Juvenal	p. 126
Part of the 14th Satyr of Juvenal, Against Covetousness: With a Long Preface Taken out of the Same Satyr	p. 129
Juvenal's Eighth Satyre, Frag	p. 134
from Absalom and Achitophel	p. 138
The First Satyr of Juvenal	p. 139
The Third Satyr of Juvenal	p. 143
The Sixth Satyr of Juvenal (followed by lines originally suppressed)	p. 152
The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal	p. 155
The Second Satyr of Juvenal	p. 161
The Fifteenth Satyr of Juvenal	p. 164
The Eighth Satyr of Juvenal (manuscript and published versions)	p. 166
The Eleventh Satyr of Juvenal	p. 173
The Thirteenth Satyr of Juvenal	p. 178
The True-Born Englishman: A Satire	p. 181
Trivia; or The Art of Walking the Streets of London	p. 187
The Latter Part of the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal	p. 189
An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad	p. 190
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D., Occasioned by Reading a Maxim in Rochefoucauld	p. 194
An Epistle to the Honourable Henry Bathurst, Esq; Member of Parliament for Cirencester in Gloucestershire	p. 199
The First Satire of Juvenal Imitated	p. 200
Epilogue to the Satires: 'Dialogue I' and 'Dialogue II'	p. 203
London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal	p. 210
The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated	p. 220
Mottoes and quotations from The Rembler and The Adventurer	p. 233
The State of Rome, Under Nero and Domitian: A Satire. Containing, a List of Nobles, Senators, High Priests, Great Ministers of State, andc. andc. andc. By Messrs. Juvenal and Persius	p. 236
Part of Juvenal's Sixth Satire Modernized in Burlesque Verse	p. 239
An Essay on Satire: Occasion'd by Death of Mr. Pope	p. 246
The Thirteenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated	p. 250
The Third Satire of Juvenal Translated into English Verse	p. 253
The Third Satire Imitated	p. 260
The Author	p. 264
The Candidate	p. 266
The Tenth Satire of Juvenal	p. 268
Satire VII	p. 270
Satire IV	p. 273
Satire XIV	p. 276
A Poem. In Imitation of Juvenal's Eighth Satire	p. 278
Satire IX: A Dialogue	p. 280
Satire XI	p. 282
Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-One: A Poem, in Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire of Juvenal	p. 283
The Tenth Satire of Juvenal	p. 286
Imitation of Juvenal - Satire VIII	p. 288
Secession	p. 294
The Love of Gain: A Poem. Imitated from the Thirteenth Satire of Juvenal	p. 297
The Thirteenth Satire of Juvenal	p. 301
The Seventh Satire of Juvenal	p. 305
Satire II	p. 312
Satire XVI	p. 315
An Imitation of the Eighth Satire of Juvenal, Addressed to the Rising Nobility and Gentry of the Untied Kingdoms	p. 318
Satire VII	p. 321
A farrago libelli: A Poem, Chiefly Imitated from the First Satire of Juvenal	p. 325
The Third Satire of Juvenal	p. 328
An Imitation of the Eleventh Satire of Juvenal	p. 330
Juvenal: Eighth Satire	p. 335
Prologue to the Satires	p. 336
Satire V	p. 339
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire	p. 345
Don Juan, Cantol I, stanzas 42-5	p. 351
Satire I (1812)	p. 353
Satire I (1814)	p. 354
Satire VII	p. 355
from The Christian Scholar: Classical Complaints and Scriptural Remedies	p. 358
Heathen Oracles Confessing Christ	p. 359
Juvenal in Oxford	p. 361
The First Satire of Juvneal, Translated into English Verse	p. 365
Satire 7 (Patronage of the Learned Professions)	p. 368
Satire 14 (Bad Example and Avarice)	p. 371
Men of Aquino	p. 375
A Shropshire Lad, LXII ("Terence, this is stupid stuff")	p. 377
To Juvenal	p. 378
From Juvenal	p. 380
An Elegant and Ingenious Poem in Heroic Verse Entitled Oxford; Suggested by the Third Satire of Juvenal; Wherein the Foolishness of the Institutions of the University, and the Dullness and Dishonesty of its Inhabitants and Now for the First Time Properly Exposed	p. 382
The Wayzgoose: A South African Satire	p. 386
A Satire, From the Latin of Juvenal	p. 392
The Third Satire of Juvenal	p. 394
The Sixth Satire: Against Women	p. 396
The Twelfth Satire: On the Near Shipwreck of a Friend	p. 402
II: Hypocrites and Homosexuals	p. 408
VIII: What's the Use of a Pedigree?	p. 415
XV: Egyptian Cannibals	p. 420
Satire IV: Crispinus and the Fish	p. 426
Satire VIII: Your Pedigrees	p. 429
The Vanity of Human Wishes: A Version of Juvenal's Tenth Satire	p. 433
Xerxes and Alexander	p. 437
Hannibal 2: The Life	p. 438
Weekly Juvenal, Late-Empire	p. 438
Juvenal's Prayer	p. 439
Satire VI: The Ladies - God Damn'em	p. 440
Satire IX: Naughty Naevolus	p. 443
Satire XIV: The Power of Example	p. 446
Satire 3 ('The City of Rome')	p. 452
II	p. 455
Big Fish (Juvenal IV)	p. 457
Satire VI: Oxford Fragment	p. 465
New York (after Juvenal and Johnson)	p. 467
Acknowledgements	p. 478
Index of Passages from Juvenal's Satires	p. 480
Index of Authors	p. 485
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