Talk:Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne

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Did you know... that the "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne", based on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, exhibits Voltaire's rejection of optimism and Providence and is considered an introduction to his famous work Candide?

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Hey so I am just fixing up some grammatical mistakes and fixing up some language issues.

I noticed parts of the article have been directly copy pasted from a cliffsnotes website so I am working on rewording it all (and just making it better).

I am nowhere near complete and have left many of the parts I have issues with in for now, just making progressive changes since the depth of the article was fairly shallow.

Anyways, if anybody spots any mistakes or wants to change something feel free. Voltaire&Leibniz (talk) 08:25, 28 December 2013 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Voltaire&Leibniz (talk • contribs) 08:13, 28 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Translations[edit]

Aside from the English translation by Joseph McCabe already linked at Wikisource, here are the other translations I've been able to find references to:

1977 translated by Anthony Hecht ; https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10162522
2013 unpublished draft translation by UCSD professor Antony Lyon ; here
Translations into Polish: https://www.worldcat.org/title/poema-o-zapadnieniu-lizbony-poeme-sur-le-desastre-de-lisbonne/oclc/71005602/editions?editionsView=true&referer=br
And into Portuguese: https://www.worldcat.org/title/poeme-sur-le-desastre-de-lisbonne-1756/oclc/768527379/editions?editionsView=true&referer=br
And this recent translation into Urdu: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341901744_The_Poeme_Sur_le_desastre_de_Lisbonne_by_Voltaire_Urdu_Translation_and_Analysis

(There is also a different poem on the same subject, from 1755 by John Biddolf ; https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t6ww7p463 )

I'm putting them here because I'm not sure if they belong in the article or not. If you think they do, please do add them. JesseW, the juggling janitor 06:02, 23 June 2020 (UTC)