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Original in Middle English Word-for-word translation into Modern English [51] Translation into Modern U.K. English prose [52] [page needed] Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote: When [that] April with his showers sweet When April with its sweet showers The droȝte of March hath perced to the roote: The drought of March has pierced to the root
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE [1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) [2] or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed by the 17th century.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by ...
Galland's translation was essentially based on a medieval Arabic manuscript of Syrian origin, supplemented by oral tales recorded by him in Paris from Hanna Diyab, a Maronite Arab from Aleppo. [2] The first English translation appeared in 1706 and was made from Galland's version; being anonymous, it is known as the Grub Street edition.
(The main modern anthology of medieval Arabic women's writing in English translation is that of Abdullah al-Udhari.) [84] Pre-Islamic women's literature seems to have been limited to the genre of marathiya ('elegy'). [85] The earliest poetesses were al-Khansa and Layla al-Akhyaliyyah of the 7th century.
With increasing Western presence in the East due to the Crusades, and the gradual collapse of the Byzantine Empire during the Late Middle Ages, many Byzantine Greek scholars fled to Western Europe, bringing with them many original Greek manuscripts, and providing impetus for Greek-language education in the West and further translation efforts ...
Kamran Talattof (Persian: کامران تلطف) is the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Chair in Persian and Iranian studies at the University of Arizona. [1]His research focus is on gender, ideology, culture, and language, with an emphasis on literature (Modern and Classical); contemporary Islamic issues, Middle Eastern culture; and the Persian language.