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| | Anne Finch as a Translator |
 | | Tasso also drew her by his melody; La Fontaine, by the moral patterning and justification of fable; she stayed with them for their anatomies of solitude, dream, pastoral, and court politics, for the freedom she felt in their dismissal of ambition and honor, and of her society's anti-feminist and cynical mores, conventions, and rewards. |
 | | Her first success in translation, her third paraphrase of Tasso through the French, is a direct result of her growing ability to derive her imagery from both her emotion-laden memories of details from her early ambivalent response to court life and from the nuances of the images and tones of her source text. |
 | | Tasso's Thirsis closes with a seemingly inconsistent paean to the beauty a court can foster, with his return to the country, restored ability to write poetry, and then due to Mopsus' evil magic, present hoarseness and apparent silence (Fubini I, ii, 625-52). |
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