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Josip Jurčič, The Slovene Scott

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Anthony J. Klančar*
Affiliation:
New York

Extract

Interest among the Slovenes in English literature dates back to the Age of Enlightenment (1765–1810). During this period the Jansenist and biblical scholar Jurij Japelj (1744–1807) chose Alexander Pope's moralistic-didactic poetry for translation. Later, we find J. N. Primic (1785-1823), a Graz professor, publishing in 1812 a translation of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac. Both of these used German texts.

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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1946

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