Ranjit Bolt

The Art of Translation

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    It made its author a rich man, and rightly so.
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    Pope himself, as we have seen, had an ambivalent attitude towards Homer, a mixture of reverence and condescension
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Eliot points out in his essay What Is A Classic,
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    namely, that there is an inherent conflict between literary quality and fidelity.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    found this to be more a hindrance than a help.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Pope’s poetic facility – “prettiness” –
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    “A very pretty poem, Mr Pope, but is it Homer?”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Not all great intellectuals have subscribed to this doctrine.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    A balance must be struck between litearay merit in the target language, and fidelity to the host language.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    Some sort of compromise is inevitable.
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