The Seven Great Hymns of the Mediaeval Church (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Seven Great Hymns of the Mediaeval ChurchIn a word, free tranllations do not catch the delicate pathos of the Stabat Mater, and are not echoes of its melody. I have hitherto had an occafion to fay that a tranilator may well make three tranfiations of a poem, one to portray its Itructure, that is, its meafure, melody, move ment and rhyme, one to present in detail its ideas and images, and one to produce an impre¿ion as fimilar as pollible to that of the original on the mind of the reader. But many renderings do not feem to bring nearer to us the elufive power of this original. The more the Stabat Mater is tran¿ated, the farther it drifts from us.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.