was the Scottish poet Gavin Douglas's rendering of Virgil's Aeneid into a vigorous vernacular, a poem that did much to establish the rhyming couplet as a narrative verse form in English.Just as significant, albeit on a more modest scale, were [Thomas] Wyatt's translations of Petrarch's sonnets, the precursors of a whole tradition of sonnet-making that continues down to today.
from The Guardian: Poster Poems: Translation
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