Charles Cotton: His Books and Autographs
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Dust, Alvin I.

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The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature

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Charles Cotton (1630–87) was a Royalist poet, translator, and bibliophile. His literary reputation is based largely on the considerable commercial success he enjoyed (and, judging by his perennial impecuniousness, needed) after the Restoration, notably with his much imitated and reprinted Scarronides (1664–65), a burlesque of Virgil's Aeneid , and his co‐authorship (with his close friend and protégé Izaak Walton) of the highly acclaimed fifth edition of The compleat angler (1676), a touchstone of Royalist and Anglican literature of contemplative retreat. To these well‐received later works may be added The scoffer scoft (1675), a witty burlesque of Lucian, a zestful three‐volume translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essays (1685–86) which remained the standard text for more than two centuries, and a translation from the French of Pierre Corneille's tragedy Horace (1671).

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