(.) Geographical poetry can seldom have been finer.' - Edmund Charles, Times Literary Supplement Bacon has achieved a difficult feat he has made a translation of The Lusiads of which the effect is quietly Elizabethan without the uncertain benefit of imposed verbal archaisms in any profusion.

'This is admirably done, being neither rumbustious nor boastful but shrewdly suited to the spirit of a modern readership.' - Basil Davidson, London Review of Books.Atkinson (1952)ī+ : this translation a solid introduction to a fascinating work, but more work needed on the part of the reader to fully appreciate/enjoy it Aubertin (1881), Leonard Bacon (1950), and William C. Previously translated by Sir Richard Fanshawe (1655), William Julius Mickle (1776), Thomas Moore Musgrave (1826), Thomas Mitchell (1854), Richard F.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author

Sponsored by the Classics, Medieval and Early Modern Studies Graduate Group, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Department of Classics.Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. While contemporary scholarship has largely interpreted the poem as a straightforward endorsement of imperialism, Gorey seeks to complicate this reading by examining Camões' tendentious reception of Virgilian pietas (piety) and the use of its Portuguese cognate, piedade (piety/pity). Focusing on the speech of the 'Old Man of Restelo' at the end of Canto IV, Gorey proposes that the Lusiads contains an overlooked-yet significant-voice of anti-imperialist dissent, which is encoded in numerous classical allusions. Drawing heavily upon the style and structure of Virgil's Aeneid, the poem offers a triumphal account of the explorer Vasco da Gama's first voyage to Eastern Africa and India that often verges on the fantastical and the mythical. Luís Vaz de Camões' Lusiads (published in 1572) has long served as the 'national epic' of Portugal, glorifying Portuguese colonialism in the Age of Exploration.

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The Lusiads by Luís de Camões