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What is The Art of Translating Poetry about?
This book by a well-known translator and critic is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the linguistic and other more technical aspects of translating poetry, the second involved with more practice-oriented matters. The chapters in Part One examine the specific constraints of language and the unavoidable linguistic bases of translation; the constraints of specific languages; forms and genres; and prosody and comparative prosody. Part Two looks at the subjective element in translation;
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Burton Raffel
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271072784
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Poetry, Language Learning, Linguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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