Thursday, December 24, 2020

 

Translation: The Easy Way Out

James Agate, quoted by Richard Howard, tr., Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (Boston: David R. Godine, 1983), p. xx (on a translator of Cyrano):
He refuses to rhyme and takes refuge in blank verse, like a tight-rope walker whose wire is stretched along the floor.



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