Evidence: | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819:
'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of Virgil's Eclogues, which reached me at last. I have lately compared it line for line with the original, and think it very well done ... I think I mentioned to you that these Poems of Virgil have always delighted me much; there is frequently in them an elegance and a happiness that no translation can hope to equal. In point of fidelity your translation is very good indeed.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | William Wordsworth |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 7 Apr 1770 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Francis Wrangham |
Title: | translation of Virgil, Eclogues |
Genre: | Classics, Poetry, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | 50 copies published 1815 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 1656 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Editor: | Ernest De Selincourt | |
Title: | The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years (1812-1820) | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 523 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years (1812-1820) (Oxford, 1970), 2, p. 523, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1656, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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