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To: epicure who wrote (54171)	8/8/2002 10:57:26 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I have had the experience of translating both Greek poetry and French poetry. Ultimately, I decided to write English poems that were reasonably good at conveying the sense of the original, with some sacrifice of strict accuracy, but maintaining the substantive sense of the lines. Literalness seldom works. On the other hand, there is the worry that in some instances one is writing a poem based on the original, which is distressing.......

To: epicure who wrote (54171)	8/8/2002 2:48:15 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Translating poetry is extraordinarily difficult. I hve yet to find a translation of Homer that I really like. Or of Dante. In fact, the current edition of Dante I'm reading is straight prose -- the translator didn't even try to match the rhyme and metre. I think that was smart -- the translation works very well. In other translations, the awkwardness of the attempt to put it into poetry without losing the meaning interferes with the text, IMO. This is the first time I've read Dante and been able to focus on the content alone.