Ease and Flow in Lucy Hutchinson's Lucretius. [From: Studies in Philology, Vol.
From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication of the author for the I.C.T. collection. - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise good and very clean. - From the text: Lucy Hutchinson has a long-established reputation as the biographer of her husband, Colonel John Hutchinson, the parliamentarian who defended Nottingham against the royalists in the English Civil War and who was subsequently one of the regicides Few readers know her translation of Lucretius: all six books of the De rerum natura in 7,800 lines of heroic couplets, quite possibly the first complete English version.
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