Arundines Cami
Sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Lusus Canori

From Humpty Dumpty to Shakespeare: a collection of over 200 English songs and poems translated into Latin in 1841.

Henry Drury (Edited by)

9781108012010, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

284 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.36 kg

Arundines Cami ('The Reeds of the Cam') is a collection of over 200 English rhymes, songs, poems, and hymns translated into Latin (and occasionally Greek) by a group of early Victorian Cambridge alumni. It was compiled and edited by Henry Drury (1812–1863), a graduate of Gonville and Caius College. A promising classical scholar, Drury left Cambridge in 1839 to embark on a career in the church, and became curate of Alderley, Gloucestershire. The following year, Drury and some friends conceived this anthology which includes the full text of selected English poems by authors including Tennyson, Shakespeare, Byron, Gray, Burns and Milton, accompanied by Latin translations. Drury dedicated the book, first published in 1841, to his alma mater. A total of six editions were published, the first five during Drury's lifetime, and the last in 1865, edited by H. J. Hodgson.

Preface
English poems with Latin translations.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]