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- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I History and context
- Part II The Latin love elegists
- Part III The elegiac world
- Part IV The ends of Latin love elegy
- Part V Receptions
- 16 Latin love elegy in Late Antiquity
- 17 The love elegy in medieval Latin literature (pseudo-Ovidiana and Ovidian imitations)
- 18 Renaissance Latin love elegy
- 19 English elegies of the sixteenth and seventeenth century
- 20 Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century
- 21 Russian elegists and Latin lovers in the long eighteenth century
- 22 German elegies
- Part VI Metre
- Dateline
- Works cited
- Index
20 - Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century
from Part V - Receptions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2013
- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I History and context
- Part II The Latin love elegists
- Part III The elegiac world
- Part IV The ends of Latin love elegy
- Part V Receptions
- 16 Latin love elegy in Late Antiquity
- 17 The love elegy in medieval Latin literature (pseudo-Ovidiana and Ovidian imitations)
- 18 Renaissance Latin love elegy
- 19 English elegies of the sixteenth and seventeenth century
- 20 Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century
- 21 Russian elegists and Latin lovers in the long eighteenth century
- 22 German elegies
- Part VI Metre
- Dateline
- Works cited
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy , pp. 320 - 335Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013