Rob
if you JSTOR access go to:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4343737
where this mystery may be solved, or at least there is a (1955) Bibliography
of translations of the Ars Poetica in English. I can though affirm, from the
single page I can see, that Jonson's *wasn't *the first English translation,
that honour belongs to one Archdeacon Thomas Drant, "gorbellied Drant", who
published an Englishing in 1567, including a bewildering comparison of
Horace to the prophet Jeremiah. An unlikelier candidate for surrogate
seerhood than Quintus Flaccus I find hard to come by.
best
Dave
On 25 March 2010 18:05, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Unforunately the 1640 Benson edition of Jonson's translation seems to be
> one of those few texts on EEBO that don't seem to be -- hm -- lying around
> loose. Do you know if it was reprinted again before 1700, dave? Or is
> there a contents list of George's edition online? Ought to be a way,
> somehow ...
>
>
> Robin
>
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> Excellent (I haven't considered CH because I thought it excluded
>> translations). The only, or should I write 'onely', poem from Jonson's Ars
>> Poetica translation I have is in Tomlinson's Oxford Book of Verse
>> Translations and it ain't the right poem (did accidentally result in my
>> re-reading all the Chapman's Homer excerpts though which was a real
>> pleasure
>> - Keats was right about it)
>>
>> On 25 March 2010 15:53, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]
>> >wrote:
>>
>> I've got George Parfitt's Penguin edition back at Loughborough -- if it's
>>> in there, I'll bring it along when we meet.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, there should be a way via EEBO, which *of course* I don't have
>>> access to. <g>
>>>
>>> Or Chadwych Healey EPD, if anyone has access to it. (There used to be a
>>> back door into this, but I think they found and closed it.)
>>>
>>> Robin
>>>
>>
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