Poetry of John Payne - Volume III e-bog
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John Payne was born on 23rd August 1842 in Bloomsbury, London.He began his career in the legal profession but thus was soon put to one side as he began his renowned translations of Boccaccio's Decameron, The Arabian Nights, and then the poets Omar Khayyam, Francois Villon and Diwan Hafez. Of the latter, who he ranked in the same bracket as Dante and Shakepeare, he said; he takes the "e;who...
E-bog
25,00 DKK
Forlag
Portable Poetry
Udgivet
27 november 2018
Længde
47 sider
Genrer
Poetry by individual poets
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781787802483
John Payne was born on 23rd August 1842 in Bloomsbury, London.He began his career in the legal profession but thus was soon put to one side as he began his renowned translations of Boccaccio's Decameron, The Arabian Nights, and then the poets Omar Khayyam, Francois Villon and Diwan Hafez. Of the latter, who he ranked in the same bracket as Dante and Shakepeare, he said; he takes the "e;whole sweep of human experience and irradiates all things with his sun-gold and his wisdom"e;.Later Payne became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society, which was dedicated to the poems of Francois Villon who was Frances' best known poet of the middle Ages and unfortunately also a thief and a murderer. John Payne died on 11th February, 1916 at the age of 73 in South Kensington, London.