Fables Ancient and Modern: After the Manner of La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables Ancient and Modern: After the Manner of La Fontaine

Description

en_US William Wallbeck

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:20:49Z

en_US 2012-12

en_US 2012

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:20:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 1787

Abstract

en_US Wallbeck starts with 34 pages of introduction replete with remarks about reviewers, the dedicatee, and La Fontaine. He declares a policy of setting old and new out together: let the reader decide which he likes; he illustrates this policy with an engaging anecdote of a host who put out a great wine and an ordinary one but marked them only 1 and 2; he would then let his guest decide which he liked. Wallbeck presents sixty fables. His first fable is, I am delighted to notice, Aesop at Play. I think it makes a fine introduction to a book of fables. Fable III expands La Fontaine's GA; I do not find that it gains by the expansion. It rather misses La Fontaine's turn of sympathy in the fable. I quit after VII, The Two Cats and the Monkey, which takes a good simple fable and makes it eleven pages long! I am surprised I had not heard of this book before. It seems to antedate by nineteen years Thompson's complete La Fontaine, presumably the first complete translation in English.

Identifier

en_US 9781290004367

en_US 8709 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83923

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US R. Faulder; J. Stockdale; J, Debrett; J. Edwards: J. Walter; and E. Newberry/Hardpress Publishing

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN981.W35 2012 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole