What is really best in any book is translatable any real insight or broad human sentiment. To make a beeline for something. That s worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess I ll split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded. Fitzgerald s translations of Homer s Odyssey and The Iliad appeared in 1961 and 1974.
Poetry is what is lost in translation.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, in Biographia Literaria, ch. Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing . It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy . Translation is very much like copying paintings.