Ribald Classic: Four Offensive Verses
April, 1979
Tom Brown was one of the most noted of the Grub Street hacks in 17th Century London. This was the first group of writers who lived by authorship alone--and they lived perilously by writing scandalous journalism, satires, polemics, verses and translations. Brown was a reckless man, debt-ridden, heavy-drinking, sometimes jailed, yet he was one of the best-known translators of his day, doing Latin, French and Spanish works into English--among them the Colloquies of Erasmus and Cervantes' Don Quixot...
