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Review of Newly recovered English classical translations, 1600–1800 edited by Gillespie, S.
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Botley, Paul (2019) Review of Newly recovered English classical translations, 1600–1800 edited by Gillespie, S. International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 26 . pp. 335-337. ISSN 1073-0508
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-018-0490-x
Abstract
Gillespie’s work collects, coordinates and publishes a very large quantity of entirely new English verse translations of ancient Greek and Roman authors. No fewer than three hundred and nineteen translations, or extracts from translations, appear here for the first time. The translations, all produced during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, are carefully edited from their manuscript sources according to sensible principles, and the resulting text is unencumbered and highly readable. Taken as a whole, this book represents an extraordinary accumulation of scholarly labour and, as its contents are digested over the coming years, it will change our understanding of the reception of the poetry of Antiquity in England during these centuries.
| Item Type: | Book Review | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | 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 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of the Classical Tradition | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1073-0508 | ||||||||
| Book Title: | Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600–1800 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 September 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 26 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 335-337 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12138-018-0490-x | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in International Journal of the Classical Tradition. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/.10.1007/s12138-018-0490-x | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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