Research Catalog

Title

Verse travesty in restoration Ireland : 'Purgatorium hibernicum' (NLI, MS 470), with 'The Fingallian travesty' (BL, Sloane 900) / edited by Andrew Carpenter.

Publication

• Dublin, Ireland : Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2013.
• [Dublin] : [Gill & Macmillan Ltd]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carpenter, Andrew
• Virgil.
• Irish Manuscripts Commission publisher.

Description

xv, 240 pages; 26 cm.

Alternative Title

• Purgatorium hibernicum.
• Fingallian travesty.
• Irish Hudibras.

Subject

• Virgil. > Parodies, imitations, etc
• Parody
• English poetry > 17th century > History and criticism
• Epic poetry, Latin > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Parodies, imitations, etc.
• Translations

Note

• "The poem that follows exists in three versions, two manuscripts - the 'Purgatorium hibernicum' (c. 1670) and 'The Fingallian travesty' (c. 1686), both of which are now printed for the first time - and The Irish Hudibras, printed in London in 1689. The text ... is a coarsely-worded travesty of the sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid" -- introduction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Manuscripts: (1) Purgatorium Hibernicum or the sixt booke of Virgill's 'Aeneis' travestie burlesque a la mode de Fingaule (NLI MS 470) -- (2) The Fingallian travesty: or the sixt book of Virgill's 'Aenæids' a la mode de Fingaule (BL, Sloane).

ISBN

• 9781906865153 (hbk.)
• 1906865159 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 866583157
• SCSB-12083431

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library