A Hundred Fables from La Fontaine

Title

en_US A Hundred Fables from La Fontaine

Description

en_US Philip Wayne

Creator

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

Date

2016-01-25T16:08:04Z

en_US 1993-07

en_US 1961

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:08:04Z

Date Issued

en_US 1961

Abstract

en_US Good short introduction. La Fontaine's lighthearted manner is, in a way, a veil to his scope and depth. This poet saw and loved lasting essentials, whether in a bowed woodman or in a rabbit or in death. His intelligence is coupled with gaiety, his irony with compassion. I find Wayne's verse translations faulty, perhaps because I have read too many student papers that find things in the English not there in the French. A careful study of the first four of Wayne's fables finds regular additions, perhaps prompted by the rhythm and rhyme. Thus calling the grasshopper the ant's friend in I,1.17 is dangerous. In I,2.3-4, there is nothing in the French about delicate flair or a fair greeting. In I,3 it takes Wayne's frog twenty-one words to burst as against LaFontaine's ten. In I,5 Wayne's wolf adds a gratuitous and potentially distracting line in the midst of his rejection of the dog's feasts: You have 'em. You grow fatter. T of C at the beginning, and AI at the end.

Identifier

en_US 1902 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77468

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Anchor Books ; Doubleday & Company Inc.,

en_US Garden City, NY

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 W3 1961 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