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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
… Lord Burghley, and humanist lexicographers like Henri Estienne. Telling such a story helps to explain his attitudes toward literary models, whether classical like Vergil or vernacular like Pierre de Ronsard. It also allows me in my final chapter to show how Spenser's depiction of the relation of …
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Angelo Poliziano and the Renaissance invention of Greek-to-Latin verse translation, 1430-1589.
Greek-to-Latin verse translation is a phenomenon entirely absent from the Middle Ages, and which appears only fitfully and tardily in the 15th century, some decades after prose translation becomes a staple of humanist practice. By the end of the 16th century, however, almost the entire corpus of …