Abstract
Coleridge says that what makes a poem is its
untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning. Be it observed that I include in the meaning of a word not only its correspondent object but likewise all the associations which it recalls.
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Derek Walcott, Omeros (London: Faber and Faber 1990).
Nuala Nà Dhomhnaill, Pharaoh’s Daughter (Oldcastle: Gallery Books, 1990).
Cf. the famous repetition of the words ‘the same’, ‘the same’, ‘the same’ in the definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451) on the two natures ‘in one person and subsistence’ of the incarnate word. Denziger , Enchridion Symbolorum (Freiburg: Herder, 1946).
‘El chocoyito’ by Irene Agudelo in PoesÃa campesina de Solentiname (Managua 1980).
‘Nicaragua agua fuego’ by Gioconda Belli is in De la costilla de Eva. The translator of 1 is John Lyons in Nicaragua Water Fire (Warwick: Greville Press Pamphlet, 1989); the translator of 2 is D. L.
‘Elvis’ is in Vuelos de Victoria. The translator of 1 is Marc Zimmerman in Flights of Victory (New York: Curbstone Press, 1988). The translator of 2 is D. L. in Nicaraguan New Time.
‘Martinets’ (‘Swifts’) by Philippe Jaccottet is in Philippe Jaccottet Selected Poems translated by Derek Mahon (London: Penguin, 1988).
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Livingstone, D. (1993). Translating Poetry. In: Poetry Handbook. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22398-5_6
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