Значение слова TATE в Литературной энциклопедии

NAHUM (1652-1715).-Poet, _s._ of a clergyman in Dublin, was _ed._ at Trinity Coll. there. He _pub._ _Poems on Several Occasions_ (1677), _Panacea, or a Poem on Tea_, and, in collaboration with Dryden, the second part of _Absalom and Achitophel_. He also adapted Shakespeare's _Richard II._ and _Lear_, making what he considered improvements. Thus in _Lear_ Cordelia is made to survive her _f._, and marry Edgar. This desecration, which was defended by Dr. Johnson, kept the stage till well on in the 19th century. He also wrote various miscellaneous poems, now happily forgotten. He is best remembered as the Tate of Tate and Brady's metrical version of the Psalms, _pub._ in 1696. T., who succeeded Shadwell as Poet Laureate in 1690, figures in _The Dunciad_. NICHOLAS BRADY (1659-1726).-Tate's fellow-versifier of the Psalms, _b._ at Bandon, and _ed._ at Westminster and Oxf., was incumbent of Stratford-on-Avon. He wrote a tragedy, _The Rape_, a blank verse translation of the _AEneid_, an _Ode_, and sermons, now all forgotten.