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Marie Axton and James P. Carley, eds.
“Triumphs of English”: Henry Parker, Lord Morley, Translator to the Court: New Essays in Interpretation.
Published London: The British Library, 2000.
ISBN 071234649X.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK: Hobbs the Printer, Southampton.
Size: 178×251×24mm.
Page count: xi,276pp inc. 8 monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy shows some minor warehouse damage – in particular, the dustjacket has some indentations on it, and the top corners of the boards are mildly bumped; in other respects doesn’t look heavily used; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

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One of the few authors from the ranks of the nobility during the first half of the sixteenth century, Henry Parker, Lord Morley (c.1481-1556) is an undeservedly neglected figure, whose rehabilitation this volume sets out to accomplish.

Morley was the first Tudor writer to render Petrarch’s Trionfi into English verse, he set about imitating the “Italian Ryme called Soneto”, and he translated Plutarchian Lives into English decades before any other writer attempted to do so. He presented his translations each year as New year’s gifts to those he wished to please, individuals as diverse as Henry VIII himself, the King’s daughter Mary, and Thomas Cromwell. To Mary he wrote in praise of orthodoxy, while to Henry and Cromwell he condemned the pope in no uncertain terms.

As the essays in this deeply interdisciplinary collection show, Morley was a kind of mirror of the ways in which the Tudor nobility functioned in a world wracked by faction and discord.

Contents:
Starkey, Introduction;
Carley, Writings of Lord Morley, a bibliographical survey;
Boffey & Edwards, Books connected with Lord Morley & his family;
Bartlett, Morley, Machiavelli, & the Pilgrimage of Grace;
Rex, Morley & the Papacy;
Maule, What did Morley give when he gave a “Plutarch” Life?;
Carlson, Morley’s translations from Roman philosophers & English courtier literature;
Simpson, Lord Morley’s translation of De claris mulieribus;
Axton, Lord Morley’s Tryumphes of Petrarcke;
Woods, Lord Morley’s “Ryding Ryme” & the origins of modern English versification;
Axton, Epilogue — Lord Morley’s funeral;
plus seven appendices giving texts by Morley.

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