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The Migration of the Muses: Translation and the Origins of American Poetry

The Migration of the Muses: Translation and the Origins of American Poetry JoAnne VAn DeR WoUDe Harvard University The Migration of the Muses Translation and the Origins of American Poetry In a 1626 poem to George Sandys, treasurer of the Virginia Company and resident of Jamestown colony, Michael Drayton envisions the American future of poetry: And (worthy GEORGE) by industry and use, Let's see what lines Virginia will produce; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intice the Muses thither to repair, Intreat them gently, trayne them to that ayre, For they from hence may thither hap to fly. (3: 207­08, lines 37­45) Praising Sandys's translation of the first five books of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1621), Drayton imagines the Muses may follow Sandys to Virginia, where, once trained and entreated, they will supply the artistic inspiration that is lacking in England. The image of the migration of the Muses was popular: two years later, it would be repeated by George Wither in Robert Hayman's Quodlibets, Lately Come Over from . . . Newfound-land: Despaire not therefore, you that love the Muses If any Tyrant you, or yours abuses: For these will follow you, and make you mirth Ev'n at the furthest Angles of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

The Migration of the Muses: Translation and the Origins of American Poetry

Woude, Joanne van der.
Early American Literature , Volume 45 (3) – Nov 6, 2010
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JoAnne VAn DeR WoUDe Harvard University The Migration of the Muses Translation and the Origins of American Poetry In a 1626 poem to George Sandys, treasurer of the Virginia Company and resident of Jamestown colony, Michael Drayton envisions the American future of poetry: And (worthy GEORGE) by industry and use, Let's see what lines Virginia will produce; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intice the Muses thither to repair, Intreat them gently, trayne them to that ayre, For they from hence may thither hap to fly. (3: 207­08, lines 37­45) Praising Sandys's translation of the first five books of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1621), Drayton imagines the Muses may follow Sandys to Virginia, where, once trained and entreated, they will supply the artistic inspiration that is lacking in England. The image of the migration of the Muses was popular: two years later, it would be repeated by George Wither in Robert Hayman's Quodlibets, Lately Come Over from . . . Newfound-land: Despaire not therefore, you that love the Muses If any Tyrant you, or yours abuses: For these will follow you, and make you mirth Ev'n at the furthest Angles of the

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Published: Nov 6, 2010

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