The American poet Robert Frost(1874-1963)suggested that poetry gets lost in translation,an opinion that unfortunately has been widely publicised.This view,of course,is a conceit:not only does poetry NOT always get los...The American poet Robert Frost(1874-1963)suggested that poetry gets lost in translation,an opinion that unfortunately has been widely publicised.This view,of course,is a conceit:not only does poetry NOT always get lost in translation,often it is through translation that poetry flourishes.For translation is one of the principal ways in which a literature can reinvigorate itself,can look outwards at other forms of writing and discover and then develop those forms.展开更多
文摘The American poet Robert Frost(1874-1963)suggested that poetry gets lost in translation,an opinion that unfortunately has been widely publicised.This view,of course,is a conceit:not only does poetry NOT always get lost in translation,often it is through translation that poetry flourishes.For translation is one of the principal ways in which a literature can reinvigorate itself,can look outwards at other forms of writing and discover and then develop those forms.