@inbook{028296938e8c4faa9a85d0b78b6a0e6c,
title = "Defensio Prima and the Latin Poets",
abstract = "This chapter, in a prize-winning volume, examines ways in which Milton{\textquoteright}s recourse to Latin poetry in Defensio Prima serves a much deeper purpose than that of merely illustrating or lending authority to his argument. Rather, it is argued, the defence engages with a variety of Latin intertexts (Plautus, Terence, Horace, Petronius), which in turn give birth to a range of dramatis personae, with whom Salmasius is ironically and somewhat kaleidoscopically equated. This methodology lends particular force to Milton{\textquoteright}s rhetoric of invective whilst hopefully laying to rest the fallacy that his Latin prose writings were writing during a period of {\textquoteleft}poetic inactivity.{\textquoteright} For this is a prose work that is poetically as well as politically aware. ",
author = "Estelle Haan",
note = "Chapter Number: 16",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697885.013.0016",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-19-921088-6",
series = "Oxford Handbooks of Literature ",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "291--304",
editor = "Nicholas McDowell and Nigel Smith",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Milton Winner of the Irene Samuel Memorial Award of the Milton Society of America",
address = "United Kingdom",
}