Author: YOUNG, Edward.
Title: Les Nuits d'Young, traduction de Le Tourneur, suivies de l'Elégie de Gray sur un cimitière de campagne, traduite par le même, et en vers par M.-J. Chénier. Nouvelle édition, ornée de deux vignettes.
Description: Paris: H. Langlois fils, et Le Bailly, 1828. 12mo. 2 vols in 1. Vol. 1: 331p. Frontispiece (though the title-page says 'ornée de deux vignettes'. Vol. 2: 311p. Quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards; gold-tooled spine; slightly wear at edges; green endpapers. Calculations in ink on half-title of volume 1. **** The influence of Young's Night thoughts on the rise of European romanticism is strikingly illustrated by the number of translations that spread across Europe from Moscow to Lisbon and from Christiana to Palermo. The first complete translation into French, the work of Pierre Le Tourneur, appeared in 1769. In his introduction the translator announced frankly: 'The poem of the Nights or Complaints presents numerous faults which it is almost as easy to avoid as perceive; but it is nevertheless the most sublime elegy on the miseries of the human condition.' The translation was an instant success with the French public and the critics. H. Forster, Edward Young in translation: checklist 1749-1881, item 1828(a), The Book Collector, vol.20, p.219.

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