Research Catalog

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Description

1. xxix, 166 pages; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. AMS studies in the eighteenth-century ; no. 62

Uniform title

1. AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 62.

Subject

1. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
2. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
3. Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Appreciation -- England
4. Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736
5. Authors and publishers -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
6. England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century

Contents

1. Early modern Ovid Moralis' -- Golding, Renoüard, and Sandys -- "To restore Ovid to his native sweetness, easiness, and smoothness": Dryden and the 1717 Tonson edition -- "Pretty applications of poetical stories": Addison, Gay, Pope, Tate, and Rowe at work -- "Many noble and beautiful strokes of poetry": Sir Samuel Garth and his other collaborators.

Call number

1. JFE 13-7301

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 157-162) and index.

Author

1. Morton, Richard Everett, 1930-

Title

1. The English Enlightenment reads Ovid : Dryden and Jacob Tonson's 1717 Metamorphoses / by Richard Morton.

Publisher

1. New York : AMS Press, Inc., [2013]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. AMS studies in the eighteenth-century ; no. 62
2. AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 62.

Bibliography

1. Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 157-162) and index.

LCCN

1. 2013018091

ISBN

1. 9780404648626 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0404648622 (cloth : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 13-7301