Значение слова CHAPMAN в Литературной энциклопедии

CHAPMAN

GEORGE (1559-1634).-Dramatist and translator, was _b._ near Hitchin, and probably _ed._ at Oxf. and Camb. He wrote many plays, including _The Blind Beggar of Alexandria_ (1596), _All Fools_ (1599), _A Humerous Daye's Myrthe_ (1599), _Eastward Hoe_ (with Jonson), _The Gentleman Usher_, _Monsieur d'Olive_, etc. As a dramatist he has humour, and vigour, and occasional poetic fire, but is very unequal. His great work by which he lives in literature is his translation of Homer. The _Iliad_ was _pub._ in 1611, the _Odyssey_ in 1616, and the _Hymns_, etc., in 1624. The work is full of energy and spirit, and well maintains its place among the many later translations by men of such high poetic powers as Pope and Cowper, and others: and it had the merit of suggesting Keats's immortal Sonnet, in which its name and memory are embalmed for many who know it in no other way. C. also translated from Petrarch, and completed Marlowe's unfinished _Hero and Leander_.

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