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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TRANSLATIONS OVID'S EPISTLES. VOL. XII. PREFACE THE TRANSLATION OF OVID'S EPISTLES. The Life of Ovid being already written in our language, before the translation of his Metamorphoses, I will not presume so far upon myself, to think I can add any thing to Mr Sandys his undertaking. Published in 8vo, in 1680. This version was made by several hands. See Introductory Remarks on Dryden's Translations. Johnson gives the following account of the purpose of Dryden's preface: ? In 1680, the Epistles of Ovid being translated by the poets of the time, it was necessary to introduce them by a preface; and Dryden, who on such occasions was regularly summoned, prefixed a discourse upon translation, which was then struggling for the liberty it now enjoys. Why it should find any difficulty in breaking the shackles of verbal interpretation, which must for ever debar it from elegance, it would be difficult to conjecture, were not the power of prejudice every day observed. The authority of Jon- son, Sandys, and Holiday, had fixed the judgment of the nation; and it was not easily believed that a better way could be found than they had taken, though Fanshaw, Denham, Waller, and Cowley, had tried to give examples of a different practice. .f George Sandys' Translation of Ovid was published in folio, in 1626. The English reader may there be satisfied, that he flourished in the reign of Augustus Ca?sar; that he was extracted from an ancient family of Roman knights; that he was born to the inheritance of a splendid fortune; that he was designed to the study of the law, and had made considerable progress in it, before he quitted that profession, for this of poetry, to which he was more naturally formed. The cause of his banishment is unknown; because he was himself un...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217402965 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217402968 |
| Weight | 1.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.93 In |
| List Price | $23.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 416 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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