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Poe benefited from having translators with a great deal of literary talent of their own. For example, Charles Baudelaire was one of his translators.
by DFHippie 3y ago
Poe benefited from having translators with a great deal of literary talent of their own. For example, Charles Baudelaire was one of his translators.
- tremon 3y agoSame in NL: one of his translators was Simon Vestdijk, a prolific author and poet himself. In a way, his translations ruined Dutch literature for me: the fantastic imagery of Poe and the lyrical translations of Vestdijk produced a combination that not many home-grown writers could match.