Excerpt from The Ballades of Th???odore De Banville: Translated Into English Verse So far as I am aware, no complete translation has so far been published in England of the Ballades of Theodore de Banville. In issuing this one I would like to emphasize what Banville himself says in his Preface as to the difficulty of writing a good Ballade. The difficulty becomes acute when the Ballade has to be translated, as the great difiiculty of finding rhymes is aggravated by the necessity of keeping in touch with the original. I do ...
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Excerpt from The Ballades of Th???odore De Banville: Translated Into English Verse So far as I am aware, no complete translation has so far been published in England of the Ballades of Theodore de Banville. In issuing this one I would like to emphasize what Banville himself says in his Preface as to the difficulty of writing a good Ballade. The difficulty becomes acute when the Ballade has to be translated, as the great difiiculty of finding rhymes is aggravated by the necessity of keeping in touch with the original. I do not claim indulgence on this account for any shortcomings of expression or for any failure to render fully the spirit of the French but I do claim a larger freedom of treatment than is generally accorded to translations in less difficult forms, and I claim, too, the privilege of sacrificing the letter occasionally for the sake of retaining the spirit in its fulness. Nobody, I fancy, would have been more willing to accord or to employ this privilege than Banville himself: and nobody can be more conscious of the shortcomings of these versions than his translator. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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