| 词条 | Epistolae Ho-Elianae |
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Epistolae Ho-Elianae (or Familiar Letters) is a literary work by the 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer, James Howell. It was mainly written when Howell was in the Fleet Prison, during the 1640s; but its content reflects earlier travels he made from 1616 on behalf of a London glass factory.[1] It appeared in three volumes from 1645 to 1650. A fourth volume was added in a collected edition of 1655. It has been suggested that some of the letters are fictional.[2] The selection of the recipients has also been attributed to patronage relationships.[3] A "Mrs. A. W." who occurs as recipient has been fitted to another letter by Howell to provide a tentative deductive identification of the author of A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia (1651) as Anna Weamys, who is not otherwise traced as a writer.[4] As travel literature, Howell's work largely neglects scenic description. But some of the language used has been described as a possible source for the work of Joshua Poole on epithets.[5] The fourth edition (1678) was published by Thomas Guy, and profits went to founding Guy's Hospital in London. Notes1. ^{{ODNBweb|id=13974|title=Howell, James|first=D. R.|last=Woolf}} 2. ^http://www.bartleby.com/217/0811.html 3. ^Gary Schneider, The Culture of Epistolarity: vernacular letters and letter writing in early modern England, 1500-1700 (2005), p. 228; [https://books.google.com/books?id=xXmmIkaH6esC&pg=PA228 Google Books]. 4. ^{{ODNBweb|id=68376|title=Weamys, Anna|first=Jane|last=Collins}} 5. ^Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: the development of the aesthetics of the infinite (1997), pp. 60–1; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Aw8j8JZhxpYC&pg=PA60 Google Books]. External links
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