...artistic culture. Dante Gabriel Rossetti said 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." "Each nation is imprisoned by its language," Octavio Paz has remarked, but thanks "to translation,...

...doesn't really come into it. Here is Rossetti again: "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." You do it, in other words, not for "reasons" but for love — in my case, love of certain splendid...

...that a good poem shall not be lumed 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...

...may not quite share Rossetti's prescriptive view 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".3 If Rossetti's argument may appear overly aestheticising, somewhat ideally Mallarméan, it...

...may not quite share Rossetti's prescriptive view 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".6 If Rossetti's argument may appear overly aestheticising, somewhat ideally Mallarmean, it...

...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...literality of rendering is altogether secondary to his chief aim. I say literality, — not fidelity, which is by no means the same thing. When literality...

...the more general cultural/aesthetic prescription 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' (viii). From that premise Rossetti draws his distinction between 'literal' and 'faithful' translation...

...poet, that is, either in esse or in pause ? Let us hear the canon of translation laid down by Rossctti himself : — " The life-blood of rhythmical translation...this confession of Victor Hugo which I am bound to i]iiote, though it flatly contradicts my main contention : " Je déchire qu'une traduction en vers...

...Introduction. 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 -iccess the translator is...

...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...