So far as I know they were utterly ignored in England, but things do keep
turning up. On Anglo-French stuff, by the way, Anne Coldiron at Louisiana
State is terrific. Anne (Prescott)
> Dear Dispensers,
> I am trying to discover whether the sonnets by his
> friend Etienne La Boetie that Montaigne omitted from
> the later editions of his Essais were ever
> translated into English in the sixteenth or
> seventeenth centuries. They were, following
> Montaigne, omitted from Florio's editions, and I can
> find no trace of them published in any other English
> work, but they may have been so notwithstanding my
> search, and they may also have circulated in
> private. Does anyone have any leads?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Bishop
> Dept of English
> Case Western Reserve University
> Cleveland OH 44120-7117.
>
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