The Death of Balder: From the Danish of Johannes Ewald, 1773 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Ewald, Johannes

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9780331777116: The Death of Balder: From the Danish of Johannes Ewald, 1773 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331777118 ISBN 13: 9780331777116

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Excerpt from The Death of Balder: From the Danish of Johannes Ewald, 1773

For the fidelity with which the present version has been made I appeal to those of my countrymen who understand the original, and demand whether I have given a thought or expression equivalents to which are not to be found in the Danish tragedy.

I have imitated the peculiar species of blank verse in which the original is composed, in order that the English reader may form an exact idea thereof, and though by having done so my poetry may have some what of a cramped, embarrassed gait, I have a firm hope that I shall not meet very severe reprehension for having sacrificed elegance to fidelity.

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