Essay on the Principles of Translation
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Essay on the Principles of Translation evaluates particular renderings, including a translation described as excellent but possibly faulty in its last stanza, which misses the happy petulance of the original. The discussion invites comparison with Bishop Atterbury’s translation of the same ode, identifying its opening words while judging the version too well known to require insertion. A fourth example is Dr. Jortin’s translation of a fragment of Simonides, in which Danae laments over her sleeping infant while exposed to the ocean.
The discussion credits a translator with a kindred genius with the original, presenting specimens as evidence of the work’s merit. A specimen of a Latin version of Paradise Lost is described as an example of everything vicious and offensive in poetical translation.
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