[T]he selected poems are accompanied by line-by-line vocabulary of less familiar words, so that the individual, or class, can forge ahead without constantly stopping to look up vocabulary, and by a commentary, mostly on points of grammar, but sometimes explaining references such as to the labour of Sisyphus [...]. There are also useful short introductions to neo-Latin, Weston’s metrics, and her Latin style. All this is admirably well thought through and carried out: any educator trying to introduce Neo-Latin authors such as Sarbievius or Sanazzaro to their students might weep an envious tear, or alternatively, think that the example of Experrecta is one which other neo-Latin enthusiasts could usefully follow.
Westonia
Select Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston
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Elizabeth Jane Weston (1581-1612) was born in England, but spent most of her life in the intellectual hub of early-modern Europe: the imperial court of Rudolph II in Prague. She is remarkable for her determination to work professionally as a poet and to publish her writings, a path not generally open to women of the time. Her numerous Latin poems and letters were widely read and admired, both within the court and across the informal “republic of letters” that stretched across Europe. Although she became one of the most successful women poets in the history of Latin, her works have long been inaccessible to students in the absence of editions meant for the classroom. This volume presents, for the first time, a collection of Weston’s works in the original Latin alongside aids to her vocabulary and grammar.
Author(s)
Elizabeth Jane Weston
Editor(s)
Bret Mulligan, Celia Levy, Claire Pettit, Claudia van Vloten, Erica S. Collin, Felix K. Bieneman, Hannah Rebecca Cohen, Harry Cottrell, Mary Anna Ball, Priya Nwakanma, Rowan Killina