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Maryland's "First Essay of Latin Poetry in English Dress": Conceiving Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Maryland

Maryland's "First Essay of Latin Poetry in English Dress": Conceiving Cultural Change in...   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’’ http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Maryland's "First Essay of Latin Poetry in English Dress": Conceiving Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Maryland

Early American Literature , Volume 37 (2) – Jul 1, 2002

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2002 The University of North Carolina Press.
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Abstract

  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’’

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Early American LiteratureUniversity of North Carolina Press

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