Excerpt from Dramas of Calderon, Tragic, Comic, and Legendary, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated From the Spanish, Principally in the Metre of the Original Conceiving, as I may be permitted to do, the delight with which a translator is driven impulsively, almost as by an original inspiration, to reproduce in his native tongue, those harmonies which have so enchanted him in another - making him hasten to show unto his countrymen the beautiful things which he has dis covered in his wanderings, like an admiring child bringing home a scenteduwild flower or a rosy shell from the meadow or the sea-beach where he has been playing - conceiving, I repeat, this enjoyment, I have little difficulty in realizing the distaste and aversion with which the same person will turn from the dreary wastes of arid and monotonous prose (the worse for being in a metrical form) which almost in all long poems surround those verdant oases, ou\ which trans lators first alight, and where they would be too happy to be permitted to remain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.