Part 29 (1/2)
An Auto.
”The first auto translated is 'Belshazzar's Feast', a fortunate selection, for it is probably unsurpa.s.sed in dramatic effect and poetic description, and withal is much less enc.u.mbered with theology than most others”.
From an article in ”The New York Nation”, by a distinguished professor of Cornell University, on ”Mac-Carthy's Translations of Calderon”.
THE DIVINE PHILOTHEA.
An Auto.
”'The Divine Philothea', probably the last work of the kind written by Calderon, and as such worthy of attention, inasmuch as it is the composition of an old man of eighty-one, is conceived with much boldness and executed with marvellous skill. No fewer than twenty personages are represented on the stage, and these have their several parts allotted to them with great discrimination, ingenuity, and judgment. The Senses, the Cardinal Virtues; Paganism and Judaism; Heresy and Atheism; the Prince of Light and the Power of Darkness, figure amongst the characters”.
”The Bookseller”, June 29, 1867, on Mac-Carthy's ”Mysteries of Corpus Christi (Autos Sacramentales), from the Spanish of Calderon”.
THE TWO LOVERS OF HEAVEN.
A Drama.
”Of these 'The Wonder-working Magician' is most celebrated; but others, as 'The Joseph of Women', 'The Two Lovers of Heaven', quite deserve to be placed on a level if not higher than it. A tender pathetic grace is shed over this last, which gives it a peculiar charm”.
Archbishop Trench.
Calderon's Autos Sacramentales, or Mysteries of Corpus Christi. Duffy: Dublin and London, 1867.
From ”The Irish Ecclesiastical Record”.
”In conclusion, we heartily commend to our readers this most interesting and valuable specimen of Spanish thought and devotion, wrought, as it is, into such pure and beautiful English. . . . . When we remember the great literary advantages which Spain once possessed in the intellect and faith of her literary giants, we may well rejoice in the appearance among us of one of the greatest of that n.o.ble race in the person of Calderon, especially when introduced to us by a poet whose claim upon our consideration has been so emphatically made good by his own original productions as Denis Florence Mac-Carthy”.
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