Besos latinos en el renacimiento inglésalgunas imitaciones del Carmen V de catulo

Abstract

This article offers a review of the Catullian influence in the English Literature of the Renaissance and the XVII century through several imitations of the carmen V of the «kisses» by some famous English poets. Starting with Sir Walter Ralegh and Shakespeare as the precursors, a trace of Catullian kisses can be found in Thomas Campion, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Richard Crashaw, John Donne and other less important poets of the period. The typology of these imitations —whether they be more or less faithful to the original or subvert the topic, as well as whether they be indirect versions coming from some neo-latin poets, such as Johannes Secundus— is also studied, together with a brief commentary on the situation of comparative analyses in the Spanish University