This is the first edition of the collected works of the early modern poet and translator Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-66), and includes the translations of works by Boethius, Martial, and Horace for which he is best-known. Much of the material in this edition appears in print for the first time. Original spelling and punctuation are maintained throughout.

The Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe: Volume I (|c OET |t Oxford English Texts)

Literature & Fiction

Fanshawe, Sir Richard

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

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Original Letters Of His Excellency Sir Richard Fanshaw: During His Embassies In Spain And Portugal (1702)

Travel

Kessinger Publishing

Memoirs Of Lady Fanshawe, Wife Of Sir Richard Fanshawe: Ambassador From Charles The Second To The Courts Of Portugal And Madrid (1830)

Fanshawe, Anne Harrison

Religion & Spirituality

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Camões (ca.1524/25-1580) is the national poet of Portugal, with a status in the Lusophone world akin to that of Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes and Goethe elsewhere. A wonderful lyric poet, and also an occasional dramatist, his masterpiece is Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), an epic poem on the beginnings of the Portuguese maritime empire, for which the author himself had fought as a common soldier - in North Africa - where he lost an eye in battle, in India, in southern Africa, the Red Sea, India and Macau - where the grotto in which he wrote some of the poem is a tourist attraction. As Dante took Virgil as his guide in the Divine Comedy, so Camões uses the great navigator, Vasco da Gama, as his tutelary spirit, while also aping Virgil's approach in the Aeneid, fashioning a national epic on the empire's origins in much the same way as Virgil had done for the Rome of Augustus. The translation here, dating from 1655, is one of the great translations of the 17th century, made while Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666), a supporter of Charles I and Charles II, was under house arrest during the Cromwellian inter-regnum. Fanshawe also translated two Spanish plays and a number of Spanish sonnets from the period around 1600-1630, with some of the finest being from the baroque master Luís de Góngora. Unlike many of his successors, Fanshawe tries to stay close to the original, occasionally at the cost of having to twist the English to fit the rhyme and metre, the target language having, even in this more flexible era, far fewer resources for rhyme than the Portuguese. The results, nonetheless, are something of a monument, giving voice to a very long and complex poem and making it work, almost, as an English epic. Fanshawe, when not at his desk, was an accomplished diplomat, having served in the Madrid embassy and, after the Restoration, as Ambassador in Lisbon, where he negotiated the marriage of Charles II to Catherine of Braganza.

The Lusiads (Shearsman Classics)

Camões, Luis Vaz de

Poetry

Shearsman Books

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