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Translating Poetry

The Double Labyrinth

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
  2. Translating La Ceppède

    • Keith Bosley
    Pages 1-8
  3. Kafka and the Golem

    • John Felstiner
    Pages 35-50
  4. Translating Martial and Vergil

    • James S Holmes
    Pages 57-72
  5. Translating Nerval

    • Peter Jay
    Pages 73-82
  6. Translating Penna and Cernuda

    • James Kirkup
    Pages 83-94
  7. Revising Brodsky

    • George L. Kline
    Pages 95-106
  8. Translating Anna Akhmatova

    • Stanley Kunitz
    Pages 107-124
  9. Voice; Landscape; Violence

    • Rika Lesser
    Pages 125-137
  10. Translating Juarroz and Noren

    • W. S. Merwin
    Pages 138-143
  11. Playing Scrabble without a Board

    • Judith Moffett
    Pages 144-160
  12. ‘The Voice Inside’

    • Grace Schulman
    Pages 161-177
  13. Working at Someone Else’s Poem

    • Jon Silkin
    Pages 178-184
  14. Translating Horace

    • C. H. Sisson
    Pages 185-200
  15. Finding the Proper Equivalent

    • William Jay Smith
    Pages 201-220
  16. Translating Brodsky

    • Daniel Weissbort
    Pages 221-227
  17. Le Pont Mirabeau

    • Richard Wilbur, Paul Auster
    Pages 228-234

About this book

This volume, with contributions in the form of narrations, or of work sheets, by leading British and American translators, shows what happens: how problems present themselves and how they are resolved.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Iowa, USA

    Daniel Weissbort

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