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Epic poetry, French - Translations into English - Early works to 1800

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    Green-Green: or, the nunnery parrot. A poem . Translated from the French of Monsieur Gresset.

    Gresset, 1709-1777. | Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]
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    Ver-Vert or, the parrot of Nevers: a poem, in four cantos. Freely translated from the French of J.B. Gresset.

    Gresset, 1709-1777. | Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]
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    Ver-Vert or, the nunnery parrot. An heroic poem in four cantos. Inscribed to the Abbess of D*****. Translated from the French of Monsieur Gresset.

    Gresset, 1709-1777. | Date: 1759
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    The civil war of Geneva , or, the amours of Robert Covelle, an heroic poem, in five cantos. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire, by T. Teres.

    Voltaire | Date: 1769

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