Author: Gordon Kendal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781880869
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
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 language. Glossaries (side- and end-) explain obscurities in his vocabulary while the introduction and notes set the work in context and indicate how Douglas understands and refocusses the great Virgilian epic. It will be of interest to medievalists and Renaissance scholars, to classicists and to students of the English language, and not least to the general reader whom Douglas had especially in mind. Gordon Kendal is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews.
Gavin Douglas, 'the Aeneid' Volume 1
Author: Gordon Kendal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781880869
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
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 language. Glossaries (side- and end-) explain obscurities in his vocabulary while the introduction and notes set the work in context and indicate how Douglas understands and refocusses the great Virgilian epic. It will be of interest to medievalists and Renaissance scholars, to classicists and to students of the English language, and not least to the general reader whom Douglas had especially in mind. Gordon Kendal is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781880869
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
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 language. Glossaries (side- and end-) explain obscurities in his vocabulary while the introduction and notes set the work in context and indicate how Douglas understands and refocusses the great Virgilian epic. It will be of interest to medievalists and Renaissance scholars, to classicists and to students of the English language, and not least to the general reader whom Douglas had especially in mind. Gordon Kendal is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews.
Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 2
Author: Virgil
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322493
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The 13th book of the Aeneid is by Maffeo Vegio.
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322493
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The 13th book of the Aeneid is by Maffeo Vegio.
Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1
Author: Virgil
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780947623968
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 13th book of the Aeneid is by Maffeo Vegio.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780947623968
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 13th book of the Aeneid is by Maffeo Vegio.
The Palice of Honour
Author: Gawin Douglas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Gavin Douglas, The Aeneid (1513): Part One: Introduction
Virgil's Aeneid
Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour
Author: David John Parkinson
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444091
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
At the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. While deeply versed in Chaucer's writings, Douglas identified Ovid's Metamorphoses as a particularly timely model in the light of contemporary humanist scholarship. For all its comedy, The Palyce of Honour stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule.
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444091
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
At the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. While deeply versed in Chaucer's writings, Douglas identified Ovid's Metamorphoses as a particularly timely model in the light of contemporary humanist scholarship. For all its comedy, The Palyce of Honour stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule.
Virgil's Aeneid. Translated Into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld. Edited with an Introduction, Notes and Glossary by David F.C. Coldwell
Reading Dido
Author: Marilynn Desmond
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900742
Category : Carthage (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900742
Category : Carthage (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Proensa
Author: George Economou
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 168137031X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
It was out of medieval Provence—Proensa—that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provençal troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical. The poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is Proensa, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn’s Proensa, George Economou writes, “will take its place among Gavin Douglas’ Aeneid, Golding’s Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley’s Japanese, and Pound’s Chinese, Italian, and Old English.”
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 168137031X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
It was out of medieval Provence—Proensa—that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provençal troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical. The poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is Proensa, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn’s Proensa, George Economou writes, “will take its place among Gavin Douglas’ Aeneid, Golding’s Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley’s Japanese, and Pound’s Chinese, Italian, and Old English.”