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Diverse translations (usually to English) of a short poem in Renaissance French, Clément Marot's A une Damoyselle malade (referred to as 'Ma mignonne' by Hofstadter), serve as reference points for his ideas on the subject. [1] Groups of translations alternate with analysis and commentary on the same throughout the book.
This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...
An earlier example of homophonic translation (in this case French-to-English) is "Frayer Jerker" (Frère Jacques) in Anguish Languish (1956). [5] A later book in the English-to-French genre is N'Heures Souris Rames (Nursery Rhymes), published in 1980 by Ormonde de Kay. [6]
Paroles (; "Words") is a collection of poems by Jacques Prévert, [1] first published in 1946. [2] [3] [4] Lawrence Ferlinghetti's translation of 44 poems from this collection was published by Penguin Books in the 1960s, under the title Selections from Paroles. [5] A sound recording of his reading the poems was made in the 1950s. [6]
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This was translated into English by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as "Where are the snows of yesteryear?", [3] for which he popularized the word "yesteryear" to translate Villon's antan. [4] The French word was used in its original sense of "last year", although both antan and the English yesteryear have now taken on a wider meaning of "years gone by".
Barbara Sargent-Baur's complete works translation (1994) includes 11 poems long attributed to Villon but possibly the work of a medieval imitator. [citation needed] A new English translation by David Georgi came out in 2013. [16] The book also includes Villon's French, printed across from the English.