Author: ANACREON.
Title: Odes of Anacreon. Translated into English Verse. With Notes. By Thomas Moore, Esq. Ninth Edition.
Description: London: Printed for Carpenter and Son..., 1815. 2 volumes. 8vo, 163 x 99 mms., pp. [ix] x - xv [xvi blank], 175 [176 colophon]; [5] 6 - 148, including half-title in each volume, engraved portrait of Anacreon in volume, contemporary polished calf, gilt borders to a fan motif on each cover, spines richly gilt, morocco labels; an attractive set, but there is some slight damp-staining at the end of volume, the joints are slightly worn, and the upper front corner of volume 1 has been repaired. With the bookplate of Edward Gwent Vaughan Lloyd of Rhagatt, who was Sheriff of Merionetshire in 1891, on the recto of the front free end-paper of each volume and that of Robert H. Hayhurst on the front paste-down end-paper of volume one. Moore (1779 - 1852) published this translation of the odes of Anacreon in 1800, and the work was frequently reprinted. The third edition of 1803 attracted the attention of The Edinburgh Review, where the reviewer, the Reverend John Eyre wrote, "On the whole we think Mr Moore has damped the fire of his work by a profusion of epithet; and that, had he broken the uniformity of his diection with some passages of greater simplicity, he would have heightened our pleasure, without violating materially violating his own plan of translation. That plan, however, we think, is constructed with so little judgment, that he has totally failed in the important point of being faithful to the manner of his original...." Having regretted Moore's rendering of the "licentious" nature of Anacreon's odes, he concludes that Moore's translation "is much better calculated for a bagnio."

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