The only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation, as far as possible, with one more possession of beauty. Educational Review - Página 370editado por - 1909Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1861 - 528 páginas
...that a good poem shall not be turned into a bad one. The only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation, as...of rendering is altogether secondary to this chief aim. I say literality, — not fidelity, which is by no means the same thing. When literality can be... | |
| 1861 - 192 páginas
...shall not be turned into a bad one." He adds, that " the only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation, as...as possible, with one more possession of beauty." This may be true, it is true ; but unfortunately it leaves room for the collateral fact that the mortal... | |
| 1861 - 510 páginas
...Poetry not being an exact science, literality of rendering is altogether secondary to this chief aim. I say literality, — not fidelity, which is by no means the same thing. When literality can be combined with what is thus the primary condition of success, the translator... | |
| 1862 - 636 páginas
...this,—that a good poem shall not be turned into a bad one. The only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation, as...of rendering is altogether secondary to this chief aim. I say literality, not fidelity, which is by no means the same thing. When literality can be combined... | |
| Harry Buxton Forman - 1871 - 536 páginas
...good poem shall not be turned into a bad one;' that 'the only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation, as...far as possible, with one more possession of beauty ;' that ' poetry not being an exact science, literality of rendering is altogether secondary to this... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1874 - 504 páginas
...that a good poem shall not be turned into a bad one. The only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation, as...not fidelity, which is by no means the same thing. When literality can be combined with what is thus the primary condition of success, the translator... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1874 - 504 páginas
...commandment,—that a good poem shall not be turned into a bad one. The only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation, as...rendering is altogether secondary to this chief law. I say literality,—not fidelity, which is by no means the same thing. When literality can be combined with... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1874 - 504 páginas
...commandment,—that a good poem shall not be turned into a bad one. The only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation, as far as possible, with one more possession of beaut}'. Poetry not being an exact science, literality of rendering is altogether secondary to this... | |
| William Sharp - 1882 - 474 páginas
...putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation, as far as possible, with one or more possession of beauty. Poetry not being an exact...not fidelity, which is by no means the same thing. When literality can be combined with what is thus the primary condition of success, the translator... | |
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