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Our lot is not fallen upon a time that is readily pleased with any attempts in poetical translation; not indeed because they are judged, in the minds of the generality, by too high or too refined a standard, but because there exists for them no standard posi tive or satisfactory enough to control the passing humours of the ingenious reader, who is naturally, in such a state of ignorance, rendered more inclin able to censoriousness than to sympathetic lenity. This has become the state of public feeling, because our old standards of translation have fallen into disrepute, and our established methods become oh solete, while those that mu st succeed them are but vaguely or negatively intimated by the critic, not realized as yet, nor illustrated, beyond a very few brilliant instances, by the actual labours of the artist.
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Our lot is not fallen upon a time that is readily pleased with any attempts in poetical translation; not indeed because they are judged, in the minds of the generality, by too high or too refined a standard, but because there exists for them no standard posi tive or satisfactory enough to control the passing humours of the ingenious reader, who is naturally, in such a state of ignorance, rendered more inclin able to censoriousness than to sympathetic lenity. This has become the state of public feeling, because our old standards of translation have fallen into disrepute, and our established methods become oh solete, while those that mu st succeed them are but vaguely or negatively intimated by the critic, not realized as yet, nor illustrated, beyond a very few brilliant instances, by the actual labours of the artist.
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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.
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Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in Florence to a family of minor nobility. He entered into Florentine politics in 1295, but he and his party were forced into exile in a hostile political climate in 1301. Taking asylum in Ravenna late in life, Dante completed his Divine Commedia, considered one of the most important works of Western literature, before his death in 1321.
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