Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Sir Roger L'Estrange
Standard Name: L'Estrange, Sir Roger
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Ephelia | Roger L'Estrange
, recently appointed Royal Licenser, approved the 2-column broadside eulogy A Poem to His Sacred Majesty
, on the Plot, which was printed as Written by a Gentlewoman: that is, by Ephelia
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Finch | Although AF
is often thought of as a writer of pastoral, on account of the fame of A Noctural Reverie, this mode is fairly rare in her work. She is a very social poet.... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon
, Virgil
, and Sir Roger L'Estrange
. A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | Here EM
reverts to the most elevated social level: the family of the Duke of Orkney, who traces his descent from the kings of Scotland, and inhabits an ancient mansion on the banks of the... |
Timeline
1663: Sir Roger L'Estrange was appointed the first...
Building item
1663
Sir Roger L'Estrange
was appointed the first national Surveyor of the Press, an office designed to facilitate censorship.
1678: Roger L'Estrange published the first English...
Writing climate item
1678
Roger L'Estrange
published the first English translation (out of ten before 1740) of G. J. Guilleragues
' Portuguese Letters (often called Letters of a Portuguese Nun), which in French dated from 1669.
November 1739: Sir Roger L'Estrange's prose translation...
Writing climate item
November 1739
Sir Roger L'Estrange
's prose translation of Aesop
's Fables (formerly treated in snappy couplets by Aphra Behn
) was printed—by Samuel Richardson
.
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