Author: John DrydenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Preface to the Fables
Author: John DrydenThe Preface to the Fables
Author: John DrydenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781019523421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An influential literary essay by the English poet and playwright John Dryden, discussing the art of translation and his own approach to adapting Aesop's Fables into English verse. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Preface to the Fable
Author: John DrydenPreface to the Fables
Author: John DrydenThe Preface to the Fables (Classic Reprint)
Author: John DrydenPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331564334
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Excerpt from The Preface to the Fables These qualities, so admirably described by Dr Johnson, shine with undiminished lustre in the preface to the Fables. Though he had come within twenty years of the old gentleman who desired the ladies to count fourscore and eight before they judged him for mounting his horse somewhat heavily, his judgment was not impaired, nor the natural force of his mind abated. Ln memorable words he declares that thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. His critical faculty is as keen, his taste as judicious, as when he wrote the Essay on Dramatic Poesy. He still wins the reader by his engaging frankness and unaffected modesty. His style has 'lost none of its ease, lucidity, and vigour, suffused with genial humour, and lighted up by occasional flashes of vivid satire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Preface to the Fables. Edited by W. H. Williams,...
Author: John DrydenPalamon and Arcite
Author: John DrydenDryden. Preface to the Fables. With an Introduction by Allen Mawer, Etc.
Author: John DrydenAesop's Fables
Author: AesopPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853261282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
The Fables of Aesop
Author: AesopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description