The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-24
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Danies Divine Comedy, the Inferno; literal prose
formulation, with the Tsrt and explanatory Notes
BY JOHN A. CARLYLE, M. D. New York: Har-
per & Brothers, 1919 l2mo. For sale by Tay-
lor & Maury.
This translation ID IN many respects more salts
factory the reader than the celebrated paraphrase
Of DR.. Corey, who was often forced to sacrifice
vgor and terseness to the acquisitions of metre and
rhythm. Any Anglo-Saxon who has ever attempted
to read French translation of Hamlet, Macbeth,
or the Paradise Lost, will conceive at once how
difficult it must be to render into another language
in equally harmonious numbers, the poems of the
great Italian mystic, who, in spite of the twelve
hundred and forty commentaries published since
the year 1928 one hundred and eighteen years be-
fore the discovery Of America, is yet but partially
understood Discarding all ornateness, DR., Car
lyle has sought merely to render the great master
of Italian poetry into ineligible and faithful Eng
lish prose- which, however, he has done with much
elegance and grace. This version Of the divine
comedy is in character precisely what the rem
dering of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre
and Lehrjahre, and the novels of Museus, were by
the more distinguished Thomas Carlyle, brother
of the translator of Dante. The original is printed
at the bottom of each page with fidelity of accent
and photography in reprints Of books in foreign
languages The Purgatorio and Paradise, in the
same style, would render the version invaluable
The typographical execution Of the book is excel
lent, and it should have popularity and success.
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PErsARcH's SoSSETs.-A translation Of the Son.
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