Translator's Preface I : About This Translation

By De Cervantes, Miguel

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It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favor of the present undertaking what had long been a favorite project: that of a new edition of Shelton?s ?Don Quixote,? which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some- and I confess myself to be one- for whom Shelton?s racy old version, with all its defects, has a charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct, could possess. Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to the same generation as Cervantes; ?Don Quixote? had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford on one of his last journeys, and under the mulberry tree at New Place joined hands with a kindred genius in its pages.

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