Translating poetry
Subtitle: seven strategies and a blueprint
By: André Lefevere.
Series: Approaches to translation studies
Publisher: Van Gorcum
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Assen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Poetry -- Translating.
Description: His book investigates the problems and possibilities in the translation of literature, especially poetry. The investigation is based on a comparison between Catullus' sixty-fourth poem and English translations of it published between 1870 and 1970. Several strategies for translating are analyzed, and their comparative merits and faults are discussed. The book also tries to describe the position translation and translation studies should occupy in the wider context of the study of comparative literature. --from publisher description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [123]-[125].  Includes index.

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