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R BARCLAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 394 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARCLAY  . the characters and names of the See also:story . Thus Aneroetus is' See also:Clement VIII;, Arx non eversa is the See also:Tower of See also:London; Hippophilus and Radirobanes are the names of the See also:king of See also:Spain; Hyanisbe is See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth; Mergania, by an easy See also:anagram, is See also:Germany; Usinulca, by another, is See also:Calvin . The See also:book is of See also:historical importance in the development of 17th • See also:century See also:romance, including especially See also:Fenelon's Telemaque . See also:Ben See also:Jonson appears, from an entry at Stationers' See also:Hall on the 2nd of See also:October 1623, to have intended to make a See also:translation . See also:Barclay's shorter poems, in two books, were printed in the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (See also:Amsterdam, 1637, i. pp . 76-136) . In the See also:dedication, to See also:Prince See also:Charles of See also:England, he refers to his earlier publication, the Sylvae . The best See also:account of Barclay is the See also:preface by Jules Dukas in his bibliography of the Satyricon (See also:Paris, 1889) . This supersedes the See also:life in See also:Bayle's See also:Dictionary, which had been the See also:sole authority . A " fifth See also:part " of the Satyricon appears in most of the See also:editions, by Alethophilus (See also:Claude Morisot) . For the Argenis, see the See also:dissertations by See also:Leon See also:Boucher (Paris, 1874), and Dupond (Paris, 1875) .

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Icon Animorum was Englished by See also:Thomas May in 1631 (The Mirrour of Mindes, or Barclay's Icon Animorum) . Barclay's See also:works have never been collected .

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