The Poetry of Pasternak (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Boris Pasternak
- First Published: 1914
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Poetry or poets, Nobel Prizes, Russia or Russian people
Critical Evaluation:
Translation is the sea change for poetry, often giving it a different coloring and new or odd dimensions during its passage from one language to another. For the linguistic artifact which is the poem, by reason of its structure achieved in and its meaning expressed through language, cannot speak in another tongue with the same sonance, precision, or authority that it possesses in the original. The best that the translator can hope to accomplish is to keep as intact as possible those elements of the poem which resist the violence of change: the larger...
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