PARAPHRASIS POETICA IN TRIA JOHANNIS MILTONI, VIRI CLARISSIMI, POEMATA
London: Johannis Darby, 1690. Octavo, xxxvi, 510 pages. G; Bound in contemporary polished calf, gilt tooling to spine. Spine label worn off. Text block stiff and wavy from water exposure. JR Consignment. Shelved in Case 0.
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"In his translation of PL, William Hog uses the original ten-book version with the arguments printed together preceding the poem; Hog's translations of PL, PR, and SA are the first Latin translations of Milton's three major poems. It was this work that William Lauder used so extensively in his notorious attempt to prove Milton a plagiarist. (See Lauder and commentary there with Eighteenth-century Miltoniana.) This is the first William Hog translation." [Wickenheiser]. "Paradisum amissum", "Paradisum recuperatum", and "Samsonem Agonisten" each have separately dated title pages; pagination and register are continuous. Wing H2362, M2158; Coleridge 184; Wickenheiser 1759.