Item 6 - Notebook with translation of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" Book II (an extract) by R. C. Trevelyan

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Reference code

TRER/29/6

Title

Notebook with translation of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" Book II (an extract) by R. C. Trevelyan

Date(s)

  • c 1919? (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

Exercise book from W. Straker Ltd., 30 ff., lined pages.

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Content and structure area

Scope and content

Essay by Trevelyan on art and knowledge. Translation of Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" 2.1-189.
Book also used from back cover in: draft verse, "I am he whom you would seek..."; beginning of essay on self.

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Related units of description

30/18, 30/19: further notebooks with translations from Lucretius (though these may have been done for different publications).

Notes area

Note

Trevelyan notes in a letter to Desmond MacCarthy on 12 Feb 1920 that he hopes to get his translation of Lucretius finished next day; Trevelyan's friends begin to send him thanks for "Translations from Lucretius" from Aug 20 onwards.

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