Some English Horatians of the 1790s

• Autores: Stuart Gillespie
• Localización: Translation and literature, ISSN 0968-1361, Vol. 33, Nº. 2, 2024, págs. 229-237
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Here are printed for the first time four Horatian verse translations or imitations by William Parsons (fl. 1785–1824) with a further item by William Boscawen (1752–1811), from the two Bodleian manuscripts in which they are apparently uniquely extant. The Horatian poems involved are Odes 1.1, 1.22, and 1.30; Epist. 1.4. The appeal of these sophisticated and playful compositions lies partly in their off-the-record character, with frequent satirical flavouring.