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Newly recovered English classical translations, 1600-1800 /

Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800 is a unique resource: a volume presenting for the first time a wide-ranging collection of never-before-printed English translations from ancient Greek and Latin verse and drama of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Transcribed and edit...

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Group Author: Gillespie, Stuart, 1958
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Ancient Greek
Latin
Edition: First edition.
Series: Classical presences
Subjects:
Classical poetry > Translation into English > Early works to 1800
Greek poetry, Hellenistic > Translations into English > Early works to 1800
Latin poetry > Translations into English > Early works to 1800
Classical poetry > Appreciation > England
Summary: Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800 is a unique resource: a volume presenting for the first time a wide-ranging collection of never-before-printed English translations from ancient Greek and Latin verse and drama of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Transcribed and edited from surviving manuscripts, these translations open a window onto a period in which the full richness and diversity of engagement with classical texts through translation is only now becoming apparent. Upwards of 100 identified translators and many more anonymous writers are included, from fami
Carrier Form: xii, 529 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [495]-521) and indexes.
ISBN: 9780198705574
0198705573
Index Number: PA3622
CLC: I046
I12
Call Number: I12/N549

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