"The Book of Apollonius " was first published in 1936. Minnesota
Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable
books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions.
No other English translation of this famous thirteenth-century
Spanish narrative poem is available, in either poetry or prose. The
present translators have put it into a form that reproduces most
faithfully the quaint and naive quality of the original "Libro de
Apolonio," the story of which appears in Book Eight of John Gower's
"Confessio Amantis "and in Shakespeare's "Pericles."
The reader who is not a specialist in medieval or Spanish
literature will find here a lush uncensored tale of mad adventure.
If he will give himself up to the spell of its child-like spirit,
he will find himself led on through such "faery lands forlorn" as
the untrammeled imagination has immemorially loved to create. The
story parades before him storms, shipwrecks, kidnappings, pirates,
supposed deaths, miraculous escapes and survivals. Beginning in a
theme that runs through dramatic literature from "Oedipus Rex "
through "The Cenci " to "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," the plot
reveals the misfortunes that furiously pursue Apollonius, king of
Tyre, after he tries to woo the daughter of King Antiochus away
from her father. Forced to flee for his life, Apollonius plunges
from adventure to adventure, until incredible reunions and
transports of joy bring the tale to a conventional happy
ending.
The translators' Introduction gives an account of the use of the
Apollonius material in Old French, Provencal, Anglo-Saxon, German,
and other literatures, as well as tracing the history of the poem
from its source in a lost Greek romance.
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