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Victoria Moul

Victoria Moul is an academic, writer and poet living in Paris. She is Professor of Early Modern Latin & English at UCL, with a joint appointment between the departments of Greek & Latin and English, currently taking a break from academia for family reasons. She works primarily on the Latin / vernacular bilingualism of early modern literary culture, especially in relation to poetry. She is trained both as a classicist (BA Oxford) and as an early modernist (MPhil and PhD Cambridge).  She has published widely on topics in Latin literature, classical reception, early modern English poetry and early modern Latin, including Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition (CUP, 2006), The Cambridge Guide to Neo-Latin Literature (CUP, 2017) and A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry: Bilingual Verse Culture in Early Modern England (CUP, 2022). She writes regularly about poetry for the TLS, The Friday Poem and on her own substack, ‘Horace & friends’.

    A drawing in green on an off-white background. Looks a bit like a musical instrument, could be a mandolin or maybe a lyre.

    La vigne fait maille pour maille

    Victoria Moul reviews Rainer Maria Rilke, Change Your Life. Essential Poems, selected, translated and introduced by Martyn Crucefix (Pushkin Press Classics, 2024).
    Abstract black lines on a grey background. Some go up in a diagonal way describing, I dunno, possibly an upside down ice cream cone. Some curve upwards like branches of an abstract tree. Kinda jazzy man.

    Flashes of brightwork

    Victoria Moul reviews Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton (Carcanet, 2023)
    A blue background with some gold solid circles and some gold circle outlines. They look a little like planets.

    Across the empty field

    Victoria Moul reviews The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse edited by Kaveh Akbar (Penguin, 2023)
    A study in blue. It looks like a close up of large heads of coral in an eerie blue light.

    Unfashionable almost to the point of provocation

    Victoria Moul reviews Arctic Elegies by Peter Davidson (Carcanet, 2022)
    Section of the book cover. What looks like rows of small squareish woodblock shapes in pinky red on a yellow background.

    Inside fire what you get is fire

    Victoria Moul reviews Heritage Aesthetics by Anthony Anaxagorou (Granta, 2022)
    Partial book cover photograph showing a city at night from above. Traffic and lights can be seen, and a flyover. Black, grey and red are the main colours.

    A change in the momentum of the world

    Victoria Moul reviews The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe, 2022)
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    02/11/2023

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