The Works of Lucy Hutchinson

• New and accurate text of Hutchinson's translation
• Parallel text allowing easy comparison with the Latin original
• Detailed line-by-line commentary
• Full introduction setting Hutchinson's translation in the context of her own life

Readership: Students and scholars of Renaissance literature, British and European intellectual history, and classicists

Edited by Reid Barbour, Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and David Norbrook, Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford

Reid Barbour is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published widely in the field of early modern studies, including books on classical reception, religion, prose fiction, and John Selden. He is the editor of Studies in Philology.

David Norbrook has taught at Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Maryland and is currently Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford. He has published widely on Renaissance literature and history.

"a collaborative scholarly achivement to which future students of classical and English literature will be deepy indebted." - Robert Wilcher, Modern Language Review

"Their comprehensive introduction and brilliant line-by-line notes synthesize scholarship from fields as wide-ranging as translation studies and the history of science, not to mention the rich traditions of Lucretian commentary ... An exemplary start for Oxford's four-volume Works of Lucy Hutchinson ... Essential." - D.M. Moore, CHOICE

Part I
Dedication
Acknowledgements and permissions
List of illustrations
Abbreviations and conventions
Introduction
Lucretius, De rerum natura: the Latin text, books 1-6
Hutchinson's Lucretius, books 1-6
Part II
Commentary
Bibliography and Abbreviations List
Index