Item
A Certain of Aesop's Fables Drawn into English Verse.
- Title
- en_US A Certain of Aesop's Fables Drawn into English Verse.
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Reverend G.R. Woodward, M.A., Mus. Doc.
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Ulm
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:53:58Z
- en_US 1992-07
- en_US 1926
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:53:58Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1926
- Abstract
- en_US Now here is an anomaly of a book. I cannot remember where I got it or when, but I find that its price was £10. What kind of publisher is an address? The book must be very rare if it comes from a press so private! I think Woodward is the first person I remember in 1550 fable books who has boasted of a degree in music. His 194 fables, including a few repeaters, are well done. The lines are short and, like the rhymes, strong. I think a proverb may apply here: the shorter the line, the stronger the poem. Many seem to follow song rhythms, including refrain-like repetitions (for example, The Ass and the Wolf on 3-4). Some shorter translations resemble limericks (DM, 8; The Woman and the Hen, 27). There are some differences from the usual handling of fables: the ant is female (2-3). The frogs get three kings: a log, an eel, and a hydra (7-8). The men in 2W laugh at the bald man because they know the reason for his baldness (17). Good: GB (27) and The Murderer (49). AI at the back; no T of C.
- Identifier
- en_US 1539 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Privately printed
- en_US Highgate Village
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.E5 W66 1926 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books