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Updated: May 12, 2025
Compare the opening lines in the original and in the translation, and you will see the difference between the sincere expression of a vision and the beautiful writing of an exercise. Here is Villon's beginning: Dictes-moy où, n'en quel pays, Est Flora, la belle Romaine? Archipiade, ne Thaïs, Qui fut sa cousine germaine? And here is Rossetti's jaunty English:
It was said by a critic of the last century, not wisely though agreeably to the practice of his time, that poetry rejoices in abstractions. For Rossetti, as for Dante, without question on his part, the first condition of the poetic way of seeing and presenting things is particularisation. "Tell me now," he writes, for Villon's Dictes-moy où, n'en quel pays, Est Flora, la belle Romaine
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