Musae Anglicanae: A Supplemental List

Poemataon affairs of state: political satire in Latin in later Stuart Britain, 1658–1714

“…Hexameter satires have mostly been associated with the period after 1700, when various poems appeared in print, for instance Satira in Poetastros O-C---enses (1702, "Satire Against the Oxford-Cambridge Poetasters"), which satirised bad university poets praising Queen Anne's accession, and Muscipula (1709, "The Mouse-Trap"), a mock-epic that included anti-Welsh satire. 28 However, the chronological survey will indicate that hexameters were in fact used for writing satire throughout the period, for instance in poems about Cromwell, the Great Fire of London, and the first Whigs, and in many cases they were written in manuscript.…”

“…13 This is a useful characterisation, although Bradner placed too much emphasis on formal hexameter satire as the "proper" form of satire, and therefore centred the story of Latin satire too late in chronological terms. 14 Harold Love's magisterial account of later Stuart manuscript satire acknowledged the place of Latin, and his appendix of first lines in major manuscript sources included over 350 Latin entries, although he did not include any significant discussion of these poems. He subsequently began to examine some of the Latin poems in an article for The Seventeenth Century, but only scratched the surface of the subject before his death.…”

The reception of Italian neo-Latin poetry in English manuscript sources, c.1550-1720: literature, morality, and anti-popery

“…10 This particular emphasis on anti-Papal verse leads to distinctive patterns in the circulation of and response to this material including, for instance, the popularity of poems rarely reprinted in Italy (such as Italian poets, arranged alphabetically by author: this anthology had an international impact and circulated in England, as well as in continental Europe. 13 In addition, the English writer and deacon Abraham Wright compiled a selection of the allegedly best neo-Latin poems on a European scale: his anthology, titled Delitiae delitiarum, was published in Oxford in 1637 and gathers epigrams from more than forty Italian poets, also arranged by author. 14 Italian neo-Latin poetry features in some early modern English manuscript collections of epigrams: in most cases, the inclusion of the Italians in these manuscript compilations seems largely or wholly motivated by their presence in the above-mentioned printed anthologies.…”