The Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe: Volume I

ISBN-13: 9780198117377 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 432 str.

Richard Fanshawe; Peter Davidson

Opis

This is the first edition of the collected works of the early modern poet and translator Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-66), and includes the translations of works by Boethius, Martial, and Horace for which he is best-known. Much of the material in this edition appears in print for the first time. Original spelling and punctuation are maintained throughout.

Recenzje

"This edition is timely, and Peter Davidson brings to it a polyglot learning to match and enhance Fanshawe's own. The commentary is sensitive, alert to useful analogy and exemplary in knowing where to stop" - The Seventeenth Century

O autorze

Peter Davidson has lectured in English and Scottish Literature, Renaissance Studies, and Comparative Literatureat the Universities of St Andrews, Stirling, and Leiden.