Verse travesty in restoration Ireland
Subtitle: "Purgatorium hibernicum" (NLI, MS 470), with "The Fingallian travesty" (BL, Sloane 900)
By: edited by Andrew Carpenter
Contributors: Carpenter, Andrew, editor
Publisher: Irish Manuscripts Commission
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781906865153
Subjects: Parodies, imitations; Latin Epic poetry; Translations into English
Notes: "The poem that follows exists in three versions, two manuscripts - the "Purgatorium hibernicum" (c. 1670) and "The Fingallian travesty" (c. 1686), both of which are now printed for the first time - and The Irish Hudibras, printed in London in 1689. The text ... is a coarsely-worded travesty of the sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid"--Page xi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xv).