Under these circumstances, it can hardly happen that the translator should succeed in reproducing all the sharpness and vivacity of Campanella's style, or should wholly refrain from softening, simplifying, and prettifying Michael Angelo in his attempt to produce an intelligible version.

"I had forgotten they were up there: and now I have smashed both of them, in looking for my mirror, sir, and trying to prettify myself for you.

In 1890 Yeats proved himself a real prophet when he wrote: "A true literary consciousnessnational to the centreseems gradually to be forming out of all this disguising and prettifying, this penumbra of half-culture.