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Scarronides

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place in English literature

  • Beowulf
    In English literature: The court wits

    readers is Charles Cotton, whose Scarronides (1664–65), travesties of Books I and IV of Virgil’s Aeneid, set a fashion for poetic burlesque. He is valued today, however, for work that attracted less contemporary interest but was to be admired by the Romantics William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, and Charles Lamb. The…

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