NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Twining, Thomas, 1735-1804 NRA: Twining, Thomas (1735-1804), scholar DNB: Twining, Thomas (bap. 1734, d. 1804), classical scholar and translator LBT ID: ThTwini1804 VIAF ID: 71606007 LOC ID: n91031527 | B/BAP: 1734-12-14 DIED: 1804-08-06 |
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The son of the tea-merchant Daniel Twining (1713-1762); educated at Colchester Free
Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, he took orders, edited Aristotle's Poetics, and was a lifelong friend of Samuel Parr. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Thomas Twining:
Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, translated: with Notes on the Translation, and
on the Original; and Two Dissertations, on Poetical, and Musical, Imitation. Found 1.
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