Overview


Date 1876-04-08
Publication Academy
Topic WMR refutes Hayden
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Subject literature
Keywords WMR claims Hayden Casanova incorrect
Standards Knowledge of Italian
Notes ". . . absolute gibberish."

Annotation details

76 April 8 Academy

Topic:

Refute Hayden's Casanova translation.

Citation:

Rossetti, William M. "Haydon's Correspondence." Academy (April 8, 1876): 205. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.

Summary:

Rossetti refutes a letter from Hayden regarding Rossetti's criticism of his Casanova translation. He painstakingly points out the passages and translations he finds problematic, summarizing that one particular bit of Hayden's translation was "absolute gibberish."

Rossetti suggests that perhaps the transcriber or the printer of the text Hayden referred to had made errors that skewed Haydon's translation.

But, he says, Haydon agrees with Rossetti regarding the authority of Tom Taylor's volumes, a reference Rossetti claims in his review of Haydon.

Mode:

critical

Keywords:

inaccurate translation, Haydon's translation, Rossetti's review of Haydon

Standards of Judgment:

Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic standards

References:

Haydon, Casanova, Taylor

Rhetoric:

definitive