Virgil in English Translation

Burrow, Colin

doi:10.1017/9781316756102.010

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil 2019

DOI: 10.1017/9781316756102.010

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Virgil in English Translation

Colin Burrow¹

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“…Colin Burrow has suggested that the revised edition "rarely takes a royalist peek over the parapet" and the passage on Priam's death can act as a case study that would affirm such an approach. 92 The final couplet was, as with all the lines that appear in italics in the 1649 edition, no longer italicised but instead printed in the standard Roman type. 93 The 1654 edition is a noticeably more lavish, high-status production than its predecessor.…”

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Slanted histories, Hesperian fables: material form and royalist prophecy in John Ogilby’sThe Works of Publius Virgilius Maro

Calvert

2017

The Seventeenth Century

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This article considers the status of John Ogilby's Virgil translations as royalist texts. The paratextual material to the 1649 and 1654 editions provides a framework which invites a royalist reading; the translation promotes this by manipulating Virgil's text and contemporary typographic conventions. These factors combine in passages that depict the death of kings. The volume follows the Virgilian precedent of foretelling events that had already occurred by presenting the passage on the death of Priam in such a manner to imply that it anticipated Charles I's execution. This allowed Ogilby to grant a sense of inevitability to the prophecies his translation offers regarding events that he hoped lay in the near future. The 1654 edition subtly draws on Caroline-era royalist literary tropes to suggest a permanent revival of the monarchy under Charles II. Ogilby's contributions to Charles II's coronation celebrations draw on the Virgil translations in vindication of such prophecies.

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Slanted histories, Hesperian fables: material form and royalist prophecy in John Ogilby’sThe Works of Publius Virgilius Maro

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2017

The Seventeenth Century

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Aeneas the Fair Youth: Early Modern Whiteness and the Aeneid in English Translation

Robertson

2024

English Literary Renaissance

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Vergil ‘disrobed’: John Vicars’ ‘home-spun English gray-coat plain’ Aeneid (1632)

Braund

2022

Classical Receptions Journal

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This article puts the spotlight upon the neglected 1632 translation of the entire Aeneid by the poet, puritan, and parliamentarian John Vicars, which, as the first complete translation of the Aeneid by an Englishman, should be more prominent in literary history. The article’s central argument is that the neglect of Vicars’ translation was, both at the time and thereafter, a manifestation of the class warfare that has long pervaded English society. This argument complements the view expressed by other scholars that the dismissal of Vicars was grounded in his radical puritanism and anti-Catholicism. The article analyses the paratextual materials that introduce the translation, including the dedicatory epistle, the address to the reader, and the poems of endorsement, as well as the poem itself, for signs of class struggle. By offering a close textual analysis, it argues that it is far from obvious that the quality of Vicars’ version is inferior. It concludes that the patent early hostility towards Vicars is more closely related to the person of the translator than the qualities of the translation; specifically, it attributes the failure of Vicars’ translation to dislike for the translator’s extremely humble origins, alongside his unfashionable religious and political views.

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Virgil in English Translation

Cited by 7 publications

References 432 publications

Slanted histories, Hesperian fables: material form and royalist prophecy in John Ogilby’sThe Works of Publius Virgilius Maro

Slanted histories, Hesperian fables: material form and royalist prophecy in John Ogilby’sThe Works of Publius Virgilius Maro

Aeneas the Fair Youth: Early Modern Whiteness and the Aeneid in English Translation

Vergil ‘disrobed’: John Vicars’ ‘home-spun English gray-coat plain’ Aeneid (1632)

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