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IT was with considerable reluctance that I aban doued in favor of the present undertaking what had long been a favorite project, that Of a new edition of Shelton's Don Quixote, which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some - and I confess myself to be one - for whom Shelton's racy Old version, with all its defects, has a Charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct, could possess. Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to the same generation as Cervantes Don Quixote had to him a Vitality that only a contempo rary could feel it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anach ronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cer vantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Strat ford on one of his last journeys, and under the mul berry tree at New Place joined hands with a kindred genius in its pages.
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IT was with considerable reluctance that I aban doued in favor of the present undertaking what had long been a favorite project, that Of a new edition of Shelton's Don Quixote, which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some - and I confess myself to be one - for whom Shelton's racy Old version, with all its defects, has a Charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct, could possess. Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to the same generation as Cervantes Don Quixote had to him a Vitality that only a contempo rary could feel it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anach ronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cer vantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Strat ford on one of his last journeys, and under the mul berry tree at New Place joined hands with a kindred genius in its pages.
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