Fifty Fables of La FontaineFifty of La Fontaine's verse fables in the original French are found side by side with their English translations. |
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... Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in Translation , and had intended , upon first reflection , to exclude from that volume the prototypic and seminal La Fontaine , certainly no stranger to an enlightened ...
... Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in Translation , and had intended , upon first reflection , to exclude from that volume the prototypic and seminal La Fontaine , certainly no stranger to an enlightened ...
Page xvi
... Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in Translation [ Urbana : University of Illinois Press , forthcoming ] . ) 2. In the preface to his first collection ( 1668 ) , La Fontaine calls attention , albeit modestly ...
... Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in Translation [ Urbana : University of Illinois Press , forthcoming ] . ) 2. In the preface to his first collection ( 1668 ) , La Fontaine calls attention , albeit modestly ...
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... fabulists of the sixteenth century - the " modernes " to whom he refers - he probably knew little if anything of his medieval French antecedents . ( For examples of their work , see The Fabulists French , as well as my earlier ...
... fabulists of the sixteenth century - the " modernes " to whom he refers - he probably knew little if anything of his medieval French antecedents . ( For examples of their work , see The Fabulists French , as well as my earlier ...
Contents
LA GRENOUILLE QUI SE VEUT FAIRE | 6 |
LE LOUP ET LAGNEAU | 11 |
The Oak and the Reed | 11 |
Copyright | |
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