![]() ![]() Felicitous paraphrasing is often only aĬonfession of inability to translate an author into the true terms of The original, is but the alloy that lessens the proportion of true gold Every word in a translation of a classic, not in Seems to me, would have weakened a poem-a poem whose chief merit is its Have produced a more ornate and highly finished rendering but this, it I am aware that less accuracy and a greater freedom might in many places Version of Vondel's grand drama-I lay down my pen content. Original beauty linger around the fragment of this offering-this Translation of a great classic prove other than the breaking of theĬhalice and the spilling of the wine! Yet if but some faint aroma of its Spirit-the elusive properties of its soul! But how seldom does the Sacred as is the body of such a poem, yet how much holier is its It is sacred, and every change is but a desecration. Simplicity, for every syllable of this classic has been hallowed byĬenturies. It has been my aim to preserve the old poet in all his rugged ![]() My object has been to give merely a literal but sympathetic Study, and I may therefore be pardoned for calling it a conscientiousĮffort. This translation of the "Lucifer" is the result of years of careful Hath pent within its sphere a name wherewithĮurope should else have rung from side to side." Southey's words on Bilderdÿk, another Dutch bard, might also have been The first English version of that unknown Titan, Vondel, a poet of whom It is with a feeling of diffidence that I offer to American readers this ![]() Gabriel, the Herald and Interpreter of Heaven Letter from the Board of the Queen Wilhelmina Lectureship.Īpollion's Meeting with Belzebub and Belial Dedicated by permission To the Holland Society of New Vork Which has ever shown a great interest in the achievements of the heroic race to which it proudly traces its origin and To my brother Charles Leonard van Noppen Whose inspiring love and self-sacrificing devotion have made this effort possible ![]()
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