The Sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneid Translated and Commented on by Sir John Harington (1604)Sir John Harington (1560-1612) is well known to students of Elizabethan and Jacobean history and literature as a courtier and wit, and as the author of an unusually diverse oeuvre, including a translation of Ariosto; letters; epigrams; and a satirical discourse on a primitive kind of water-closet of his own invention. The Sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneid shows him in more serious vein, and throws new light on his abilities in translation, criticism, theological discussion, and social comment. The original manuscript was prepared for the use of Prince Henry in 1604. Long thought to be lost, it is here published for the first time, and forms an important and interesting addition to the canon of Harington's published writings. The manuscript consists of 162 neatly written pages, containing an epistle to King James I, parallel English and Latin texts (the latter added, after the first eight lines, by a scribe), marginal explanatory notes, and a `comment' in seven chapters. Dr Cauchi has prepared a critical old-spelling edition, with an introduction and commentary. |
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Page xix
... Verse ' in Paradise Lost declared that it ' consists only in apt Numbers , fit quantity of Syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another , not in the jingling sound of like endings ' . The point was already ...
... Verse ' in Paradise Lost declared that it ' consists only in apt Numbers , fit quantity of Syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another , not in the jingling sound of like endings ' . The point was already ...
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... verse but in the fable . In his marginal notes and comment , Harington occasionally refers to ( and defends ) his free renderings of a Virgilian word or phrase , but he has nothing whatever to say about Virgil's own verse or - here ...
... verse but in the fable . In his marginal notes and comment , Harington occasionally refers to ( and defends ) his free renderings of a Virgilian word or phrase , but he has nothing whatever to say about Virgil's own verse or - here ...
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... verse ] Cf. OFEHV , Preface : ' some part of the Scripture was written in verse , as the Psalmes of Dauid , & certain other songs of Deborah , of Salomon & others , which the learnedest diuines do affirme to be verse , and find that ...
... verse ] Cf. OFEHV , Preface : ' some part of the Scripture was written in verse , as the Psalmes of Dauid , & certain other songs of Deborah , of Salomon & others , which the learnedest diuines do affirme to be verse , and find that ...
Contents
Abbreviations | vii |
The Manuscripts | liv |
Editorial Procedures | lx |
Copyright | |
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