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Sainte-Beuve's "imitations" of two Sonnets by Wordsworth.(Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20070922
Author:Ferber, Michael
In Vie, Poesies et pensees de Joseph Delorme (1829), Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve included three loose translations or "imitations" of poems by Wordsworth: "The Longest Day (Addressed to my Daughter Dora)" and the sonnets "I am not One who much or oft delight" (entitled "Personal Talk" after 1820) and "Scorn not the sonnet ... " They were exhibits in two of his projects: to make better known in France the lack-isles, in his charming spelling (Sainte-Beuve 213), and to reintroduce the sonnet to France after more than a century of neglect. Sainte-Beuve's versions of the sonnets ...
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