Thursday, October 18, 2007

First in America

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According to English historian C.V. Wedgwood's excellent collection of essays (History and hope : the collected essays of C.V. Wedgwood), the first book of English literature produced in America was a translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis by George Sandys.










Posted by Doug Wood on 10/18/2007

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