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Preface; A note on texts; Prologue; 1. Origins; 2. Indirections; 3. 1678: A Letter from the Country to a friend in Twon, The Desk, Poems on the Popish Plot; 4. Horace: Horace His Art of Poetry, An Imitation of Horace Book I. Satyr IX, Two paraphrases from Horace: Carmina I.xxxi and II.civ; 5. Juvenal: Juvenal in the seventeenth century, The Thirteenth Satyr of Juvenal, Imitated, A Satyr, in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal; 6. Boileau: The Eighth Satyr of Monsieur Boileau, Imitated, A Satyr Touching Nobility: out of Monsieur Boileau, A Satyr Dissuading from Poetry, A Satyr addressed to a Friend; Epilogue: To the Memory of Mr. Oldham; Chronological table; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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David Olexsak
reviewed John Oldham and the Renewal of Classical Culture on December 10, 2016
John Oldham and the Renewal of Classical Culture
Kindled for free. I was reading this book to try and get some passive Old English vocabulary, after finishing all the grammar exercises by C. Smith () - Those grammar exercises are excellent by the way, they are almost unique for learning old english from scratch.
Since I was trying to pick up vocabularly passively I did not stop to look up words in dictionaries, so it was really useful that lots of the stories were biblical and ones which everyone knows, together with a few which I had never read before (much harder to understand) and some classics of Old English literature.
Its difficult to judge if the book has helped at all, since any learning I might have done is passive, but it was not too bad to read. I didn't feel there was any curve whatsoever -the texts were quite hard to read from the beginning, which made it more difficult. However, I did get through the book, although there were lots of stories I understood only small segments of. I'd say give it a try, especially since it is in the public domain and can be downloaded to an ebook reader for free!
My favourite parts:
{Extracts from Life of King Edmund which I'd read before}
HÄ«e Ä“odon Ã¾Ä sÄ“Ä‹ende and simle clipiende, swÄ swÄ hit Ä¡e•wunelic is þǣm þe on wuda gÄþ oft, 'hwÇ£r eart þū nÅ«, Ä¡e•fÄ“ra?' And him 130 andwyrde þæt hÄ“afod, 'hÄ“r, hÄ“r, hÄ“r;' and swÄ Ä¡e•lÅme clipode andswariende him eallum, swÄ oft swÄ hiera Ç£niÄ¡ clipode, oþ þæt hÄ«e ealle be•cÅmon þurh Ã¾Ä clipunge him tÅ.
...
ÃžÄ læġ se grÇ£ga wulf þe be•wiste þæt hÄ“afod, and mid his twÇ£m fÅtum hæfde þæt hÄ“afod be•clypped, grÇ£diÄ¡ and hungriÄ¡, 135 and for Gode ne dorste þæs hÄ“afdes on•byrÄ¡an, ac hÄ“old hit wiþ dÄ“or. ÃžÄ wurdon hÄ«e of•wundrode þæs wulfes hierd-rÇ£denne, and þæt hÄliÄ¡e hÄ“afod hÄm fÄ™redon mid him, þanciende þǣm Ælmihtigan ealra his wundra.
{fun to see Gaza called part of phillistea lande!}
Æfter þissum hÄ“ fÄ“rde tÅ PhilistÄ“a lande, intÅ Änre byriÄ¡ 35 on hiera onwealde, Gaza Ä¡e•hÄten.
{description of britain}
Breten Ä«eÄ¡-land is eahta hund mÄ«la lang, and twÄ hund mÄ«la brÄd; and hÄ“r sind on þǣm Ä«eÄ¡lande fÄ«f Ä¡e·þēodu: ĘnÄ¡lisc, Brettisc, Scyttisc, Pihtisc, and BÅc-læden. Ç¢rest wÇ£ron bÅ«end þisses landes Brettas. ÃžÄ cÅmon 5 of Armenia, and Ä¡e·sÇ£ton sūþan-wearde Bretene Ç£rest.
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