Edward Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum (1675), p. xvi
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One of the most judicious, elegant, and haply in his time most approved of English translators, both for his choice of so worthily extolled a heroic poet as Torquato Tasso, as for the exactness of his version, in which he is judged by some to have approved himself no less a poet than in what he hath written of his own genius.
— Edward Phillips
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About Edward Fairfax
Edward Fairfax (1580? – 27 January 1635) was an English translator.
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