The Sacred Dramas Of George Buchanan Translated Into English Verse By Archibald Brown PDF Download

Excerpt from The Sacred Dramas of George Buchanan: Into English Verse In making this translation I have had before me only two editions of the Latin text, viz., that of 1616 (Andro Hart, Edinburgh), and that of 1687 (H. Wetstein, Amsterdam). Both give the bare text without note or comment; and, apart from typographical errors, they are in complete accord. Two metrical translations of these Dramas are known to me to have appeared; one of them in 1870 (Moodie Miller, Edinburgh), and the other a few years ago (Gardner, Paisley). Of the latter I cannot speak, never having seen it, and having indeed avoided seeing it, my own translation being by that time practically complete. The earlier version is a careful and creditable piece of work; but as a poetic rendering it suffers from its rigid literalism. The translator has shown great self-restraint in adhering resolutely and at all costs to his text, and in firmly refusing to round off a thought, or place it in a setting somewhat more in unison with the genius or idiom of the English tongue. 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.