JOSEPH TRAPP

THE

PREFACE

TO

T H E Æ N E I S

OF

VIRGIL

(1718)

Introduction by

Malcolm Kelsall

Publication Numbers 214-215

WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

University of California, Los Angeles

1982

GENERAL EDITOR

David Stuart Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles

EDITORS

Charles L. Batten, University of California, Los Angeles
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Wright, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

ADVISORY EDITORS

Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
James Sutherland, University College, London
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Beverly J. Onley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Frances M. Reed, University of California, Los Angeles

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INTRODUCTION

Joseph Trapp's translation of the Aeneid was first published in twovolumes dated respectively 1718 and 1720. Its appearance coincided withhis vacation of his chair as Professor of Poetry at the University ofOxford, an office which he was the first to hold and to which he hadbeen elected in 1708.[1] The translation may be seen both as avalediction to the University by one whose subsequent career was to bemade through the paths of clerical controversy and as a claim for theattention and patronage of the great world. The dedicatee was William,Lord North and Grey, and the list of subscribers is rich with the namesof lords temporal and spiritual, including the Lord Primate of Ireland(Thomas Lindsay), who took four sets. Addison, Arbuthnot, Berkeley,Thomas Sheridan, Tickell, Swift, Young, and Thomas Warton (who succeededTrapp as Pro

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