ABSTRACT
Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-66) was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and passed through the Inner Temple, before developing his considerable linguistic accomplishments in travel. His translation of Aeneid IV (1648) is in Spenserian stanzas, and his verse in general displays the sort of mellifluousness made possible by Spenser. The sentence below takes to an extreme the neoclassical insistence on t~e historicity of heroic poetry.
