Robert Copland
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Robert Copland (
His best known works are The hye way to the Spytell hous, a dialogue in verse between Copland and the porter of St Bartholomew's hospital, containing much information about the vagabonds who found their way there, including thieves' cant; and Jyl of Breyntford's Testament, dismissed in Athenae Oxonienses (ed. Bliss) as a poem devoid of wit or decency, and totally unworthy of further notice.
He translated from the French the romances of Kynge Appolyne of Thyre (W. de Worde, 1510),
See further the Forewords to Frederick James Furnivall's reprint of Jyl of Breyntford (for private circulation, 1871) and John Payne Collier, Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, vol. 1 p. 153 (1865). For the books issued from his press see Hand-Lists of English Printers (1501–1556), printed for the Bibliographical Society in 1896.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Copland, Robert". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Works by or about Robert Copland at Internet Archive
- Works by Robert Copland at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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