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whosc. An undue ttmo has olapsnd htnco tho
sauo Of The preceding volume. but tho delay is
| accounted for BY tbs absence in Europe aud the
East Of ono Of thu aditors.
MoRaIs' EnEIo. ........
TTE Ersips Or y.anit. pone into Knetsh ver,s
Psralse." Doason !: 1tober.s brothers.
It must bo bold spirit who would atsomp!
to translate Virgra Enetd nfter so many yor-
slons havo boon mado By various scholars aud
pocts from Dishop 0Awhin Doas!as down to
the late Prot. Conington. But OF a poet like
him, who was for all timo, trapslations will bo
neodod ~ long as slmo las!s. 1ndeod, IL may
bo question whether every distinctive period
OF sitcfnry activity does not demand new trans.
tation. Each succeeding ago lnc!udoa the boat
Of every ago before It; 1t also Possesses somo-
thing peculiar to itself. To rondor translation
Of posm acceptable tn tho latcet generation.
generation must bo embodied in II. Dryden .
| psraphsase. tbs representation Of Tho classical
age Of English literature, faiIa TO satisfy tho
taato OF Tic nineteenth century, hccatlse II 1acks
tho olaboFato simplicity and eelf-conacousncss
| Of the Victorian era. In this respect, Mr. Nor
rie' translation IA pro-cmtnens hucctsB. for lo
Ia imbued With the living spirit OF Our tno.
postaht qualifications fidelity TO tho spirit ard
tono OF the original. The only ttuo motive for
transferring posm Into foreign language Ia
TO Eivo another iSt people new thing
c!laractorstica OF It's exoup!ns. Virgil was
poet Of Art not Nature. Ills epo moves
calmly oo, .atatcIy and dgnael. l,us hie last
Translator has unfortunately chosen the long
cumbrous. fourtoeu.nyilaAle time, tho national.
ballad ineaAute; and the effect IL to create tho
impression TINT Virgil wna cnrelesa rlymor.
who poured forth his soraes without thought
nently Saxon !; ho acknowledges ChHucor aa bis
master; hiB vocabulary ts chiefly drawn from tho
we'll Of Enrliah unaenied; d; aud no las ',sed many
AnttquAtod and obso!eto words In bis rendering.
!, which aro neither justified by necessity nor tho
plea OF aizniiarity 70 the original.
Yot, even With theao drawbacks, the present
votsion is probably the bost that has cver bcou
mR1c,-prcserying tho senao Of tho original to q
poets rendering Of poet 1t IL Virgil, and more
thAn VitgiL-a representation OF tho AuguAtat
ago Of 1loman literature, softoned and onrichct
NTH tho fullness Of tho e1perionca Of all tint
since.
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