Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Great Regulars: [Mario] Roffi's alteration

may make the poem more bluntly concrete, but it's a willful undoing of the original.

This translation makes me defensive for Keats and for a defining moment in English poetry, too--defensive in a way I don't usually feel when reading translations into English when my lack of familiarity with the other language softens into suspended disbelief.

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry

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