![]() ![]() Notable translations of individual passages include the "invocation to Venus" by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene IV.X.44-47 and five passages in John Dryden's Sylvae (1685). Only complete (or nearly complete) translations are listed. Only a few more English translations appeared over the next two centuries, but in the 20th century translations began appearing more frequently. Its earliest published translation into any language (French) did not occur until 1650 in English - although earlier partial or unpublished translations exist - the first complete translation to be published was that of Thomas Creech, in heroic couplets, in 1682. ![]() ![]() The poem was lost during the Middle Ages, rediscovered in 1417, and first printed in 1473. Lucretius, Roman poet and Hutchinson, possibly his earliest English translator.ĭe rerum natura (usually translated as On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical epic poem written by Lucretius in Latin around 55 BCE. ![]()
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