The Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe |
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| Author:
| Fanshawe, Richard |
| Editor:
| Davidson, Peter |
| Series title: | c OET t Oxford English Texts |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-818299-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $841.77AUD $1054.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume completes the first edition of the collected works of the early modern poet and translator Sir Richard Fanshawe, and contains those versions of Portuguese and Spanish texts which confirm Fanshawe's importance in the history of translation. All texts are given from corrected printed copies with a provenance in Fanshawe's family and immediate circle, thus representing his works in a form which is as close as possible to Fanshawe's final intentions. Fanshawe's Latin rendering...
More DescriptionThis volume completes the first edition of the collected works of the early modern poet and translator Sir Richard Fanshawe, and contains those versions of Portuguese and Spanish texts which confirm Fanshawe's importance in the history of translation. All texts are given from corrected printed copies with a provenance in Fanshawe's family and immediate circle, thus representing his works in a form which is as close as possible to Fanshawe's final intentions. Fanshawe's Latin rendering of parts of The Lusiad of Camoes, discovered by the present editor, is here printed for the first time.