Jean De La Fontaine

Dem Raben hupft das Herz vor Lust. Der Stimme Zier Zu kunden, tut mit stolzem Sinn Er weit den Schnabel auf; da - fallt der Kase hin. Der Fuchs nimmt ihn und spricht: >Mein Freundchen, denkt an mich Ein jeder Schmeichler mastet sich Vom Fette des, der willig auf ihn hort. Die Lehr' ist zweifellos wohl - einen Kase wert

Quand j'aurais en naissant re u de Calliope Les dons qu' ses amants cette muse a promis, Je les consacrerais aux mensonges d' sope: Mais je ne crois pas si ch ri du Parnasse Que de savoir orner toutes ces fictions.

Il est un jeu divertissant sur tous, Jeu dont l'ardeur souvent se renouvelle: Ce qui m'en pla t, c'est que tant de cervelle N'y fait besoin, et ne sert de deux clous.

Tales and Novels in Verse - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Tales and Novels in Verse - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Their resemblance to the French originals is slight. Not La Fontaine, but Samuel Butler, presides over Dennis's fables; indeed, when Dennis discusses them in the Preface to Miscellanies, he fails to mention La Fontaine, although he devotes a large proportion of his remarks to a defense of Butler's burlesque verse, which he acknowledges as his model. 2] Many people were writing Hudibrastics in the 1680's and 1690's: the propensity of Butler's couplet for arousing laughter had made it a fad. 3] With its jog-trot meter, insinuating swiftness, and jarring double and triple rhymes, the Hudibrastic couplet was ideally suited to the mockery performed by low burlesque. All burlesque works by an incongruity between subject and style; the particular function of low burlesque is to debase an elevated subject by treating it in an undignified manner. 4] So it was that Butler, with the assistance of a crazy style, had exploited the gap between the high pretensions and the ridiculous performances of a Puritan knight and his squire. But of the hordes of scribblers that followed in the wake of Hudibras, scarcely any possessed Butler's sense of satiric propriety. Where his success had been founded on the discrepancy between subject and style that is essential to burlesque, they employed his style with no regard for its suitability to their subjects. Ordinary narrative poems with no satiric intent were decked in Hudibrastic couplets for the sake of a superficial cleverness. 5] Dennis followed the fashion.

Ce livre contient les volumes 1 4 et est agr ment d'illustrations d' poque. Les Fables choisies, mises en vers par M. de La Fontaine, appel es simplement Fables de La Fontaine publi s par Jean de La Fontaine entre 1668 et 1694. La plupart, pas toutes, mettent en sc ne des animaux anthropomorphes et finissent, parfois commencent, par une morale. L'auteur y invente un genre en rupture avec les traditions sopique, vang lique et humaniste, o le style et l'esprit plus que le propos se veulent didactiques. Mod le du fran ais moderne, ces apologues sont utilis s d s le d but du xviiie si cle comme support d'enseignement par les j suites, principal corps enseignant en France jusqu'en 1763, et par les pr cepteurs familiaux, puis deviennent, sous la Troisi me R publique et jusqu'apr s guerre, un incontournable de l' cole primaire.