biography
pronunciation:
[sandz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1578–1664)
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| biography:
| Colonist and traveller, born near York, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Oxford, travelled in Europe and the Middle East, and wrote Relation of a Journey (4 vols, 1615). In America he acted as treasurer of the colony of Virginia (1621–31) and made an important verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1626), upon which his reputation largely rests. He also wrote poetic versions of the Psalms (1636), the Song of Solomon (1641), and a translation of Hugo Grotius's Christ's Passion (1640). |
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