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Assumption College Maryland’s‘‘F E of Latin Poetry in EnglishDress’’ Conceiving Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Maryland Although he has been dubbed ‘‘the finest Augustan poet of the NewWorld’’ () by Leo Lemay, Richard Lewis is known today largely fora single poem, ‘‘A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis, April , .’’ However, by the time he was composing that poem, his Maryland con- temporaries already knew him as the translator of Edward Holdsworth’s mock epic, Muscipula (The Mousetrap, ; the Latin original was pub- lished in ). It is not just Lemay who considers it ‘‘the first belletristic book published in the South’’ (); Lewis’s preface announces the work as an ‘‘Attempttocultivate polite Literature, in MARYLAND’’ (), and hischief patron, Benedict Leonard Calvert (Maryland’s governor and the brother of the Lord Proprietor, the fifth Lord Baltimore), sent a copy of the book to the noted antiquarian Thomas A. Hearne, saying that it was part of his plan to create ‘‘a real foundation for literature’’ () in the colony. David S. Shields sums up the book’s purpose succinctly: Lewis clearly in- tended the translation to ‘‘announce the reign of civility in Maryland and establish his place as its spokesman’’ (‘‘Eighteenth-Century’’
Early American Literature – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jul 1, 2002
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