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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: opening word of Petrarch's sonnet, Miranda V Sol de' begli ocelli sereno, from which the whole sonnet is taken. 2. / abide, and abide; and better abide. This sonnet is curious for being in octosyllabic verse. It has not hitherto been suspected of being a translation or imitation; but there can be no doubt Wyatt was indebted to his contemporary Clement Marot for the complaint. The first quatrain of Wyatt reads thus: I abide, and abide; and better abide, After the old proverb the happy day. And ever my lady to me doth say, Let me alone, and I will provide. The first verse of Marot's chanson is as follows: J'attends secours de ma seule pensee: J'attends le jour que l'on m'esconduira On que du tout la belle me dira: Amy, t'amour sera recompensee. Marot's song is dated 1525. Wyatt's sonnet was written afterwards, according to Dr. Simonds. Regarding the old proverb, it is curious to note that the last line of Marot's preceding song is Tout vient A poinct qui peult attendre. In connection with the identification of Wyatt's sonnets Dr. Simonds has recently called my attention to the fact that in the January, 1890, issue of Anglia the sonnet Like unto these un- measurable mountains is shown to be a translation of a sonnet by Mellin de Saint-Gelais. Herr E. Koeppel made the discovery. Austin Dobson has translated the same sonnet. Can any one send me the original by Mellin de Saint-Gelais ? Montreal, 6 Hutchison Street. . . Brownlow. THE UNREASON OF A SHE-INTELLIGENCE. To The Editors: I would like to venture upon a brief criticism of Dr. Berdoe's article on Numpholeptos in the December issue of Poet-lore. Dr. Berdoe was tempted to see a reproduction of Dante's Beatrice in Browning's Nymph; but he says, We forsook it wh...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458893444 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458893448 |
| Weight | 1.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 In |
| List Price | $30.80 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 430 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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