Authority Cited: Sherburne
Author name and dates: Edward Sherburne (1616–1702)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; trans. of Latin poetry; Charles I clerk of ordinance; close translation; SJ: learning greater than powers of poetry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Sherburne cite added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The cite replaces Fanshawe cite in the 1755 Dict. for same quotation.]
Author name and dates: Edward Sherburne (1616–1702)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; trans. of Latin poetry; Charles I clerk of ordinance; close translation; SJ: learning greater than powers of poetry
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Sherburne cite added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The cite replaces Fanshawe cite in the 1755 Dict. for same quotation.]
- A Brief Discourse Concerning Translation in The Life of Seneca in The tragedies of L. Annæus Seneca the philosopher; viz. Medea, Phædra and Hippolytus, Troades, or the Royal Captives, and the rape of Helen, out of the Greek of Coluthus; translated into English verse; with Annotations. To which is prefixed the life and death of Seneca the Philosopher; with A Vindication of the said Tragedies to Him, as their Proper Author. Adorn'd with sculptures representing each History. By Sir Edward Sherburne, Knight., 1702, London : printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, at the Prince's Arms in S. Paul's Churchyard; interpreter (p.xxxvii, a translation of Horace from de Arte Poetica)