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Ezra Pound did an awful lot of translation from Japanese, though he didn't know the language. He got rough word-for-word translations from friends, and used the
by A_D_E_P_T 2y ago
Ezra Pound did an awful lot of translation from Japanese, though he didn't know the language. He got rough word-for-word translations from friends, and used them as a starting point.
When poets translate poetry, I believe that this is usually the case.
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- nine_k 2y ago"In prose, the translator is a servant to the original.author; in poetry, a rival" (don't remember the attribution).