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First-in-print translation of the Latin poems of the well-known English poet Thomas Campion, a 538-page, extensively footnoted edition, translated by H. W. Hawkins, with 15-page bibliography and 64-page introduction. This meticulous work preserves, in English, the poet's Latin meters, with facing Latin text in an antique font to approximate the original editions. Signatures are numbered in the margins, and copious footnotes supply full apparatus criticus. Elizabethan poet Thomas Campion, famous as master of English lyric style, is equally well known as a composer, music theorist, and physician. This translation of his numerous Latin poems is a ground-breaking achievement, a literary treasure, and an incidental source of medical history. Love elegies, a tender tale of innocent seduction, lampoons, funny clinical anecdotes,and Campion's recently discovered two-book epic of the infamous1605 Gunpowder Plot. Buckram bound, andavailable directly through Uppingham House for $75.00, postagepaid, to any address in the U.S.A.