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RICHARD STANYHURST (1547-1618)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:STANYHURST (1547-1618)  , See also:English translator of See also:Virgil, was See also:born in See also:Dublin in 1547 . His See also:father was See also:recorder of the See also:city, and See also:Speaker of the Irish See also:House of See also:Commons in 1557, 1560 and 1568 . See also:Richard was sent in 1563 to University See also:College, See also:Oxford, and took his degree five years later . At Oxford he became intimate with See also:Edmund Campian . After leaving the university he studied See also:law at Furnival's See also:Inn and See also:Lincoln's Inn . He contributed in 1557 to See also:Holinshed's See also:Chronicles " a playne and perfecte description " of See also:Ireland, and a See also:history of the See also:country during the reign of See also:Henry VIII., which were severely criticized in Barnabe See also:Rich's New Description of Ireland (161o) as a misrepresentation of Irish affairs written from the English standpoint . After the See also:death of his wife, See also:Janet Barnewall, in 1579, See also:Stanyhurst went to the See also:Netherlands . After his second See also:marriage, which took See also:place before 1585, with See also:Helen See also:Copley, he became active in the See also:Catholic cause . He spent some See also:time in See also:Spain, ostensibly practising as a physician, but his real business seems to have been to keep See also:Philip II. informed of the See also:state of Catholic See also:interest in See also:England . After his wife's death in 1602 he took See also:holy orders, and became See also:chaplain to the See also:arch-See also:duke See also:Albert in the Netherlands . He never returned to England, and died at See also:Brussels, according to See also:Wood, in 1618 . He translated into English The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis (See also:Leiden, 1582), to give See also:practical See also:proof of the feasibility of See also:Gabriel See also:Harvey's theory that classical rules of See also:prosody could be successfully applied to English See also:poetry .

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translation is an unconscious See also:burlesque of the See also:original in a See also:jargon arranged in what the writer called hexameters . See also:Thomas See also:Nashe in his See also:preface to See also:Greene's Menaphon ridiculed this performance as his " heroicall poetrie, infired . . . with an See also:hexameter furie ... a patterne whereof I will propounde to your judgements . . . Then did he make See also:heaven's vault to rebounde, with rounce robble hobble Of ruffe raffe roaring, with thwick thwack thurlery bouncing." This is a See also:parody, but not a very extravagant one, of Stanyhurst's vocabulary and metrical methods . His son, See also:William Stanyhurst (1602—1663), was a voluminous writer of Latin religious See also:works, one of which, Dei immortalis in corpore "mortali patientis historia, was widely popular, and was translated into many See also:languages.usually rhyming, but always recurring, the See also:idea of fixed re-See also:petition of See also:form being essential to it . At the See also:close of the 16th See also:century the word See also:stanza began to be used with an See also:adjective to designate a particular See also:species, as the Spenserian stanza," because See also:Spenser had invented that nine-lined form for his Faerie See also:Queen; or " See also:Ariosto's stanza " as See also:Drayton de-scribed what is now known as ottava rima, because Ariosto had written prominently in it . By " stanzaic law" is meant the law which regulates the form and See also:succession of stanzas . The stanza is a See also:modern development of the See also:strophe of the ancients, modified by the requirements of See also:rhyme .

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