62 Milton D. Baiimgartner 



Genies und der ganzen Ausfiihrung iiterall wahrzunehmen. Be- 

 sonders haben die beschreibenden Stellen auffallende Vorziige." 

 Theodore and Honoria^^ was later translated by Biirde, a lyri- 

 cist of note, who included the translation among his works.^" The 

 favorable criticism of Eschenburg, no doubt, as well as the poetic 

 elements of the fa'ble, fascinated Biirde. Like Kosegarten, as we 

 shall see later, he does not follow the original slavishly, but aims 

 to give it poetic expression. To accomplish this he freely ex- 

 pands the fable, and influenced by the varying rhyme of Dryden's 

 Alexander's Feast he uses a fluctuating rhyme. The rhymed 

 couplet of the original he changes to aa, abba, and abab which 

 tends to enliven his translation. While he retains the iambic 

 pentameter of Dryden, like Hagedorn, he at times contracts it into 

 four feet. The added lines from the opening of the translation 

 will show the hand of the poet and the deviations from Dryden 

 in matter and form. 



" Trotz irgend einer Stadt des Alterthums, 

 War einst Revenna im Besitz des Ruhmes 

 Der Waflfen, der Gelehrsamkeit, und Kunst : 

 Die Reichen waren frey von niedrem Geize, 

 Die Groszen, zart empfanglich fiir die Reize 

 Des Schonen, gingen, ohne Stolz, mit Gunst 

 Und milder Spende dem Talent entgegen; 

 Doch unter alien ragte Theodor, 

 Der Edle, durch Geburt, Gestalt, Vermogen, 

 Und selbst erworbnen Ruhm hervor. 

 Und doch ward seine Brust von stillem Grame 

 Zernagt. Zu seinem Ungliick sah 

 Er einst die schonste junge Dame; — 

 Denn dafiir gait Honoria — 

 Bey Mannern-ohne Wiederrede." 



That the popularity of Dryden's fables was enduring in Ger- 

 many, the criticism of Bouterwek will suffice to show. " Die 

 poetischen Erzahlungen," he says, "die er (Dryden) unter dem 



16 In the Introduction to the fable Scott calls it : " The most admirable 

 poem of its kind ever written." XI, 463-476. 



''■'' Poetische Schriften von Sam. Gottlieb Biirde. Erster Theil, pp. 117- 

 131. Breslau und Leipzig, bei Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 1803. 



