Pierre Le Tourneur / Mary Gertrude Gushing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gushing, Mary Gertrude, author.

Series:

Studies in Romance Philology and Literature

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1908]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents an account of the life and times of an almost forgotten figure in French literature, Pierre Le Tourneur, who produced the first complete translations of the works of Young, Ossian, and Shakespeare.

Contents:

Frontmatter

NOTE

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I. LE TOURNEUR , THE MAN

IL. THE WRITER OF ESSAYS AND EULOGIES

III. THE INTERPRETER OF THE ENGLISH SCHOOL OF MELANCHOLY: TRANSLATIONS OF YOUNG, HERVEY , AND OSSIAN

IV. MINOR TRANSLATIONS: ENGLISH, GERMAN, ITALIAN

V. THE TRANSLATOR OF SHAKESPEARE

VI. CONCLUSION

APPENDIX A

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88806-6

OCLC:

1100437004