The Eclogues, Bucolics, or Pastorals of Virgil: A Revised Translation, With Introduction, Text, and Notes by Thomas Fletcher Royds (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Royds, Thomas Fletcher

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ISBN 10: 1331895359 ISBN 13: 9781331895350

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Eclogues, Bucolics, or Pastorals of Virgil: A Revised Translation, With Introduction, Text, and Notes by Thomas Fletcher Royds

This book has been read for me before publication by my friend and former teacher, Mr. L. E. Upcott. To his wide knowledge and accurate scholarship I owe not only many corrections and improvements, but also some interesting additions, which are enclosed in square brackets with his initials. I thank him for once more placing his time and trouble unsparingly at my disposal.

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Excerpt from The Eclogues, Bucolics, or Pastorals of Virgil: A Revised Translation, With Introduction, Text, and Notes by Thomas Fletcher Royds

In 1907 I published a translation of the Eclogues and Georgics in Messrs. Dent's Everyman's Library. It is now out of print, and the present translation is a revised version, brought into line with Sir F. A. Hirtzel's Oxford text, which is printed together with it. Blank verse has been used throughout, except in parts of Eclogues iii., v., and vii., where rhyme seemed to me more suitable. The elegiacs with rhymed pentameters in the third Eclogue were a metrical experiment, since making which I have seen some lines by Captain A. G. Cowie in the same metre, quoted in the Classical Review for June, 1917. Swinburne's Evening on the Broads has double rhymes. In my Virgil and Isaiah (1918) I attempted a hexameter version of the fourth Eclogue, as well as a paraphrase in Biblical English; but it seemed unnecessary to reprint them in this book. I have nothing new to say on the problem of that Eclogue, but have revised my footnotes on it, adding some new matter, and recording a change of view on the text of the last line but one. This is the only place where I have departed from the Oxford text, and then only in one word. The notes are based on many years of miscellaneous reading, in the course of which I have made extracts from books of all kinds.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331895359
• ISBN 13: 9781331895350
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148