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Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1 - Introduction, Books I - VIII (Hardcover)
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Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1 - Introduction, Books I - VIII (Hardcover)
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Virgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his
people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in
the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form
of English was completed in Scotland in 1513 by Gavin Douglas and
published in print forty years later. His version (still considered
by some to be the finest of all) is significant historically but
also for its intrinsic qualities: vigour, faithfulness, and a
remarkable flair for language. Douglas was a scholar as well as a
poet and brought to his task a detailed knowledge of the Latin text
and of its major commentators, together with a sensitive mastery of
his own language, both Scots and English, contemporary and archaic.
The present edition is the first to regularise his spelling and
make access easier for the modern reader without compromising the
authentic Scots-English blend of his language. Glossaries (side-
and end-) explain obscurities in his vocabulary while the
introduction and notes set the work in context and indicate how
Douglas understands and refocusses the great Virgilian epic. It
will be of interest to medievalists and Renaissance scholars, to
classicists and to students of the English language, and not least
to the general reader whom Douglas had especially in mind. Gordon
Kendal is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English,
University of St Andrews.
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