Excerpt from The Liturgical Poetry of Adam of St. Victor, Vol. 1: From the Text of Gautier
In offering this work to the public I am breaking what is practically new ground to the great majority of English readers. The circumstances, detailed in the Introduction to M. Gautier"s Edition, under which the larger part of the poetry of Adam of St. Victor was entirely lost to the world for many years after the French Revolution, seem likely to give an interest and novelty to it in this country at this day, which that Edition, published in Paris in 1858-59, has only to a very limited degree forestalled. I feel therefore that, so far as the original text is concerned, I am doing good service to the lovers of Medi?val Hymnology, by rendering it more accessible to them in this, the first edition of it published in England.
As regards what forms the principal part of my work in these volumes, viz., the Translations, I feel, on the other hand, that much apology is due for the imperfections with which I know they abound, and I am anxious therefore to explain the principles which have guided me in my attempts - for they are no better than attempts - to render the original into our tongue.
I have looked at the duty of a translator as analogous to that of an engraver, and felt that, the poet being a "word-painter," the translator must be a "word-engraver"; in other words, that to be successful, he must reproduce faithfully, as a whole and in detail, what he sets himself to copy.
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