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Small 8vo, 1672x 107 mms., pp. [iv], 160 [161 - 164 adverts], engraved portrait of Camoens as frontispiece, engraved arms of Strangford on dedication page, entirely uncut, contemporary paper spine (soiled and faded), marbled boards (rubbed), but a good to very good copy. Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, sixth Viscount Strangford (1780 1855) graduated from TCD in 1800, and he published this translation of Camoens shortly after entering the diplomatic service as secretary of the legation at Lisbon. "Because of Strangford's translations, the American American Monthly Anthology said, 'the minor poems of Camoens now attract admiration and applause, which they never before received.' But Strangford's Poems from the Portuguese was something more than a just a collection of translations introducing the lyrics of Camoens to English readers. The volume as a whole, that is, the lyrics taken together with Strangford's 'Remarks on the Life and Writings of Camoens' and the appended notes to the poems, was virtually a romanticized biography of the Portuguese poet himself" (Monica Letzring, "Strangford's Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens," Comparative Literature (1971). Seller Inventory # 9206
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