Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1: Introduction, Books I - VIII (Mhra Tudor & Stuart Translations) (Scots Edition) His version (still considered by some to be the finest of all) is significant historically but also for its intrinsic qualities: vigour, faithfulness, and a remarkable flair for language. The first true and full translation into any form o
| TITLE | : | Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1: Introduction, Books I - VIII (Mhra Tudor & Stuart Translations) (Scots Edition) |
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| RATING | : | 4.90 (404 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0947623965 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 458 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2011-09-01 |
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Virgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form of English was completed in Scotland in 1513 by Gavin Douglas and published in print forty years later. His version (still considered by some to be the finest of all) is significant historically but also for its intrinsic qualities: vigour, faithfulness, and a remarkable flair for language. Douglas was a scholar as well as a poet and brought to his task a detailed knowledge of the Latin text and of its major commentators, together with a sensitive mastery of his own language, both Scots and English, contemporary and archaic. The present edition is the first to regularise his spelling and make access easier for the modern reader without compromising the authentic Scots-English blend of his la
Editorial : About the Author Publius Vergilius Maro, known to us as Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.), is best remembered for his masterpiece, the Aeneid, in which he represented the Emperor Augustus as a descendant of the half-divine Aeneas, a refugee from the fall of Troy and legendary founder of Rome. Virgil claimed on his deathbed that the Aeneid was unfinished and expressed a desire to have it burned, but it became the national epic of ancient Rome, a monument of Latin literature, and has been regarded as one of the great classics of Western literature ever since. Virgil's other works include the Eclogues and the Georgics, also considered masterpieces.
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