Virgil’s English Translators

Civil Wars to Restoration

AvIan Calvert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This book considers the writers who translated Virgil into English during the English civil wars, the Interregnum and the early years of the Stuart Restoration (c. 1636–c. 1661). It argues that these writers translated Virgil in order to display and interrogate their political loyalties, articulate personal responses to past traumas and express their hopes for the country’s future. All of Virgil’s English translators in this period were in some way associated with the royalist cause, but the political elements of their respective translations demonstrate that royalism itself was not a monolithic political standpoint and instead encompassed a wide variety of opinions regarding the policy of individual monarchs and the institution of monarchy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Literary Translation
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474475648

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Ian Calvert is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol. He has published a number of articles, including ‘Augustan Allusion: Quotation and Self-Quotation in Pope’s Odyssey’, Review of English Studies (advance online access), ‘Hindsight as Foresight: Virgilian Retrospective Prophecy in Coopers Hill and The Destruction of Troy’, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 26 (2019), 150-74, ‘Slanted Histories, Hesperian Fables: Material Form and Royalist Prophecy in John Ogilby’s The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro’, The Seventeenth Century, 33.5 (2018), 531-55 and ‘Trojan Pretenders: Dryden’s “The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache”, Jacobitism, and Translatio Imperii’, Translation and Literature, 26.1 (2017), 1-22.

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AcknowledgementsNote on Texts 1. Desired Futures: Sidney Godolphin and Edmund Waller2. Prophetic Elegy: Sir John Denham 3. Absent Presence: Abraham Cowley 4. Sacred Majesty: John Ogilby 5. Hopeful Prince: Sir Richard Fanshawe 6. Private Interest: James Harrington 7. Future Contingencies: Sir Robert Howard and John Boys Conclusion: Virgil’s English Translators in the Later Stuart Period BibliographyIndex