GENIUS IN TRANSLATION.
From Florto's version of Montaigne to Oarlyle's Wilhe m Meister, England has had many examples of the transplantation of foreign masterpieces, so successful as to become integral parte of English literature. Everyone is familiar with Keat'a splendid sonnet on Chapman's version of Homer, and the greatest of our p;e f s, from Pope onwards, have vi 'd with each other in rendering the classics of other tongues into our owd. . The att is not dead, as the Butcher and Ling translations of Homer and Jowett's translations of Thucydidei suffice amply to demonstra'e. One of the most exquisite of 1 all »xunples is Andrew Lang's English Version of the old story of " Au-eai-tin and Nicolctte." Whoso has not read this beautiful tale will have missed one of the most delightful thii gs in literature. Examples from Mr. Lang's translation, as of all the nth-r translations bi rd noted, are to be found in the " Library of Famous Literature." This, indeed, may be said to b» oue of the Library's most notable ,fea.u:ej.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 189, 20 August 1901, Page 2
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174GENIUS IN TRANSLATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 189, 20 August 1901, Page 2
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