The misanthrope
Original title: Le misanthrope
earliest edition we have, 1947 Librairie Larousse, 1971 paperback
The tradition of the poet-translator is as old as English literature. Chaucer made a version of Le Roman de la Rose; Pope, of Homer; Longfellow, of Dante. Richard Wilbur, one of America's most distinguished young poets, has followed in this tradition. Moreover, in Molier̀e he has chosen a dramatist whose subtle and translucent verse has qualities in common with his own. He has translated Molier̀e's great neoclassic c...
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