Fifty More Fables of la Fontaine |
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| Author:
| Fontaine, Jean de
Shapiro, Norman R. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-06650-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1997 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.00 |
Book Description:
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No less a poet than the great Seamus Heaney said of Norman Shapiro's Fifty Fables of La Fontaine, ''It is a pleasure to open a book as sure and sly as these translations. . . . He gets the tune right and the tone right, and manages to echo both the folk wisdom and the poker-faced formality of the originals.''As surely as La Fontaine followed ......
No less a poet than the great Seamus Heaney said of Norman Shapiro's Fifty Fables of La Fontaine, ''It is a pleasure to open a book as sure and sly as these translations. . . . He gets the tune right and the tone right, and manages to echo both the folk wisdom and the poker-faced formality of the originals.''As surely as La Fontaine followed ......