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Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)
Edmund Spenser
"The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description.
New England Magazine
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Learning Languages in Early Modern England
In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle...
