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Thomas Watson's Latin Amyntas (1585)

Title
Thomas Watson's Latin Amyntas (1585) / edited by Walter F. Staton, Jr. & Abraham Fraunce's translation: The lamentations of Amyntas (1587) / edited by Franklin M. Dickey.
Author
Watson, Thomas, 1557?-1592
Publication
[Chicago] : Published by University of Chicago Press for the Newberry Library, 1967.

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Additional Authors
  • Fraunce, Abraham, active 1587-1633
  • Staton, Walter F.
  • Dickey, Franklin M.
Description
xxii, 99 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 24 cm
Summary
Contains Thomas Watson's epic poem Amyntas and Abraham Fraunce's English translation. In the poem, a shepherd mourns for the death of his lover, Phyllis.
Series Statement
The Publications of the Renaissance English Text Society ; v. 2
Uniform Title
  • Amyntas. English & Latin
  • Publications of the Renaissance English Text Society ; v. 2.
Alternative Title
  • Amyntas.
  • Amyntas
  • Lamentations of Amyntas
Subject
  • Bereavement > Poetry
  • Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > England > London
  • Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) > England
  • Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
  • Bereavement
  • Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
  • England
  • England > London
Genre/Form
  • epic literature.
  • epic poems.
  • Poetry.
  • Epic poetry.
  • Poésie épique.
Note
  • The texts are on opposite pages.
  • The Latin Amyntas is reproduced from the British Museum copy. Fraunce's translation is from a copy in the Huntington Library, with a facsim. of the t.p. from the uncropped Bodleian Library copy.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliographical footnotes.
LCCN
66014114
OCLC
  • ocm00669740
  • 669740
  • SCSB-44075
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library