The Defence Of Poesie Political Discourses Correspondence Translations

Author : Philip Sidney
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483715233
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Vol. 3 written by Philip Sidney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Vol. 3: The Defence of Poesie; Political Discourses; Correspondence; Translations The other translator - B - on the contrary, adheres to the text more closely, but is accurate in being literal. He servilely follows the foreign sentence and renders it word for Word. His only ambition seems to be very cleare, and very faithfully answering his author's intent. With this Object in View, he does not hesitate, when unable to find the equivalent for a French word, to paraphrase, using two or even three expressions where the sense requires one. Such superfluity obscures the meaning and produces a certain honest, heavy mediocrity which smells of the lamp of industrious toil without having any redeeming originality of style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.