John Beveridge, the Neo-Latin Horatian Ode and the Narrative of British Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century North America
John Beveridge, the Neo-Latin Horatian Ode and the Narrative of British Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century North America
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约翰·贝弗里奇，新拉丁霍拉西安颂歌和十八世纪北美英国殖民主义的叙述
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10.1007/s12138-019-00518-2
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2019
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Hale S
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新拉丁诗歌的创作是18世纪英国双语文学文化的组成部分，并被英国殖民者带到了美洲。然而，这一新拉丁语诗歌在北美早期新的政治、宗教和社会背景中的作用在很大程度上仍未被探索。本文考察了殖民地诗人约翰·贝弗里奇在他的《家庭书信集》（费城，1765年）中发表的拉丁文贺拉斯颂歌。贝弗里奇用他的拉丁诗歌不仅描述，而且证明英国殖民北美。他对贺拉斯的殖民经验的借鉴受到后来对贺拉斯诗歌的接受的影响，这些诗歌赋予了宗教和政治意义，以反映基督教欧洲人在美国的道德，宗教和文化优势。通过探讨拉丁诗歌的文化象征意义，本文使人们能够更好地理解新拉丁文学在殖民努力中的地位，以英国化，欧洲化和基督教化美国。
The composition of Neo-Latin poetry was integral to the bilingual literary culture of eighteenth-century Britain, and the practice was taken by the British colonists to America. Yet the role of this Neo-Latin verse in the new political, religious and social setting of early North America has remained largely unexplored. This article examines the Latin Horatian odes published by the colonial poet John Beveridge in hisEpistolae familiares(Philadelphia, 1765), a collection of Latin verse epistles. Beveridge used his Latin poetry to not only describe but justify British colonisation of North America. His appropriation of Horatian models for the colonial experience was influenced by the later reception of Horace’s poems which attributed religious and political significance to them – in order to reflect the moral, religious and cultural superiority of Christian Europeans in America. By exploring the cultural symbolism of Latin poetry, this article enables a greater understanding of the place of Neo-Latin literature in the colonial endeavour to Anglicize, Europeanize and Christianize America.