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    The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love
    The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love
    The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love
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    The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love

    By Claude E. Jones and Henry Fielding

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love - Claude E. Jones

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love, by Henry Fielding, Edited by Claude E. Jones

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      Title: The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love

      Author: Henry Fielding

      Editor: Claude E. Jones

      Release Date: January 21, 2010 [eBook #31036]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOVERS ASSISTANT, OR, NEW ART OF LOVE***

      E-text prepared by Sankar Viswanathan, Delphine Lettau, Joseph Cooper,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      The Augustan Reprint Society

      HENRY FIELDING

      THE LOVERS ASSISTANT, OR, NEW ART OF LOVE

      (1760)

      Edited, with an

      Introduction by

      Claude E. Jones

      Publication Number 89

      William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      University of California

      Los Angeles

      1961

      GENERAL EDITORS

      Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

      Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles

      Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

      Lawrence Clark Powell, Clark Memorial Library

      ASSISTANT EDITOR

      W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington

      Benjamin Boyce, Duke University

      Louis Bredvold, University of Michigan

      John Butt, University of Edinburgh

      James L. Clifford, Columbia University

      Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

      Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

      Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

      Ernest C. Mossner, University of Texas

      James Sutherland, University College, London

      H.T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

      Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library

      INTRODUCTION

      The publishing history of this translation has been sketched by Cross, in his History of Henry Fielding, and may simply be summarized here. The first edition, entitled Ovid's Art of Love Paraphrased and Adapted to the Present Time (or Times) was first issued in February, 1747, and was advertised in the Gentleman's and Scots Magazines in that month. During March, further advertisements appeared in the London Magazine and the St. James Evening Post. The most extensive notice ran, however, in Fielding's own Jacobite Journal (No. 15), where it served as basis for a detailed comparison between the art of love and the art of Jacobitism. Of this 1747 anonymous, original edition no copy is known.

      In 1759, the work was reissued in London and Dublin, under the title The Lover's Assistant, and again in London in 1760. Meanwhile, advertisements for the original edition, as by Henry Fielding, had been run by the publisher, Andrew Millar, in 1754 and 1758. Inasmuch as Millar apparently still had unsold sheets in 1758, the 1759 edition may comprise these sheets with new title pages and prefatory matter necessary because of Fielding's death in 1754. At any rate, the modern instances referred to by the author of the 1759 Preface are not too modern to have been written in 1747. There has been no reprint since 1760.

      The present text is printed from the 1760 edition, collated with a copy of the 1759 issue. The Latin text, which in the original faces the English, is omitted. Notes keyed by letters and asterisks appear in the original; it will be noted that Fielding's notes combine scholarly and facetious remarks; he frequently used footnotes for comic effect, especially in the translation of the Plutus of Aristophanes in which he collaborated.

      Literature affords few pleasures so satisfying as translations done by those who are not only expert in the languages concerned, but who also are of the same spirit as the authors they translate. Some examples come readily to mind: Pope's Horace, Dryden's Juvenal and Persius, Smollett's LeSage, Lang's Aucassin and Nicolette, and Pound's translations from Provençal. Such a felicitous combination appears in Henry Fielding's translation of Book I of Ovid's Ars Amoris.

      Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English translators of the classics abounded, including Marlowe, Jonson, Chapman and Sandys; Roscommon, Waller, Denham, Cowley and Dryden. By 1700, the major kinds of translation had been differentiated, described, evaluated and practised.

      To summarize, Dryden wrote as follows in his Preface to the 1680 edition of Ovid's Epistles, Translated by Several Hands:

      All translation I suppose may be reduced to these three heads:

      First, that of Metaphrase, or turning an Author word by word, and line by line, from one language to another.... The second way is that of Paraphrase, or Translation with Latitude, where the Author is kept in view by the Translator, so as never to be lost, but his words are not so strictly follow'd as his sense, and that too is admitted to be amplyfied, but not alter'd.... The Third way is that of Imitation, where the Translator (if now [i.e. by taking such liberties] he has not lost that name) assumes the liberty not only to vary from the words and sence, but to forsake them both as he sees occasion: and taking only some general hints from the Original, to run division on the ground-work, as he pleases....

      Doubtless, he refers to the translation of verse into verse, but actually verse-into-prose also falls within Dryden's third way. When the author of the Preface to The Lover's Assistant speaks of it as an undertaking in translation, he means prose imitation, or paraphrase of verse.

      Earlier, in the 1743 Miscellanies, Fielding had published Part of Juvenal's Sixth Satire Modernized in Burlesque [i.e. Hudibrastic] Verse. The modernization, as in his Art of Love, was of place (England instead of Italy) as well as time, and allowed the author to satirize some of his contemporaries, as well as the customs of his own age.

      When, four years later, he turned to the first book of Ovid's Artis Amatoriae, he found prose an even better medium for Imitation, or Modernization. The result is a most enjoyable pot pourri of Roman mythology and eighteenth century social customs, combined with some

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