Dear list,
I was recently asked by a colleague to translate a pair of poems in praise of Chaucer by the Tudor antiquary Leland - about five hundred years out of my period - hence my question: - is a comparison of Homer, Vergil and A Another as the chief poet of their respective languages a common topos in renaissance literature (I rather suspect it is) and if so could the list suggest a few examples prior to c. 1535? From my period, Bede contrasts the subject of one of his poems with Vergil's Aeneid at one point in the EHE, and Aldhelm points out that as Vergil was the first of the Latins to write a 'Georgics, he, Aldhelm, was the first of the Germanic nations to write on metrics, but that isn't quite the same thing.
By the way, Leland has a charming little poem in which he plays on the similarity between his patron 's name (Brian) Tuke and Vergil's Tucca.
Helen COB
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