| 词条 | Turberville, George |
| 释义 | Turberville, George English poet Turberville also spelled Turbervile born 1540?, Winterbourne Whitchurch, Dorset, Eng. died before 1597 first English poet to publish a book of verses to his lady, a genre that became popular in the Elizabethan age. After attending the University of Oxford, Turberville went to Russia (1568–69) as secretary to Thomas Randolph, the first English ambassador there, and later settled at Shapwick, Dorset. In Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets . . . (1567), Turberville followed models in Tottel's Miscellany and the Greek Anthology, addressing poems to his lady, the Countess of Warwick. He was also notable for his translations of Ovid and Mantuanus (1567), which included early attempts at blank verse in English. Additional Reading John Erskine Hankins, The Life and Works of George Turbervile (1940). |
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