id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7250 Thomas Creech - Wikipedia .html text/html 1593 161 69 Thomas Creech (1659 – found dead 19 July 1700) was an English translator of classical works, and headmaster of Sherborne School. Daphnis, or a Pastoral Elegy upon the unfortunate and much-lamented death of Mr. Thomas Creech, 1700; second edition (corrected) 1701, and it is also found in 'A Collection of the best English Poetry,' vol. A second edition appeared in the following year with extra commendatory verses in Latin and English, some of which bore the names of Nahum Tate, Thomas Otway, Aphra Behn, Richard Duke, and Edmund Waller; and when Dryden published his translations from Theocritus, Lucretius, and Horace, he made flattering comments on Creech's work in the preface. The success of his translation of Lucretius induced Creech to undertake an edition of the original work. Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7250.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7250.txt