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Полный вариант заголовка: «The poetical works of Christopher Pitt : with the life of the author». Издательство: "Библиотечный фонд" (1782)
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Christopher Pitt
Christopher Pitt (1699–1748) was a British poet and translator.[1][2] His translations to English include Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry.
Pitt was educated at Winchester College, leaving in 1719 to study at New College, Oxford. He was also Rector of Pimperne, near Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire, a post given him by a relation, George Pitt, a post which he held for the rest of his life. Pitts translations of the Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry established his name, while his Imitations of Horace has been compared to that by Alexander Pope. In 1727 his work miscellaneous poems was published. Pitts died in 1748. On his tombstone at Blandford Forum is the inscription:
In memory of CHR. PITT, Clerk, M. A. Very eminent for his talents in poetry, and yet more for the univcrfal eandour of his mind, and the primitive fimplicity of hi» manners. He lived innocent, and died beloved Apr. 13. 1748. aged 48.[3]
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