Some Remarks on Translation and Translators (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Phillimore, John Swinnerton

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ISBN 10: 1330878833 ISBN 13: 9781330878835

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Some Remarks on Translation and Translators

Since material progress exists and the capital of science rolls forward accumulating, much of the contents of ordinary prose may be passed on and the former vehicle become obsolete. Let us freely concede that, if some new Caliph were to collect and destroy the last copies of Euclid's Greek, civilization would not be substantially the poorer. But in Art progress either does not exist, or at least exists only in discontinuous series: poetry is much more wholly a work of art than healthy prose is; and my concern will be more largely with poetry. It was Samuel Johnson who said that the poets are the best preservers of a language, because people must go to the original to relish them (april 11, 1776, quoted by Fitzgerald, ii.

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Excerpt from Some Remarks on Translation and Translators

Cicero taught Philosophy to speak Latin; and through Latin she learned to express herself in the modern languages. He was moved by no fanatical enthusiasm for a creed; nor even by the venturesome curiosity of a facile artist trying his hand in a new medium. His philosophical works were the pastimes and distractions of an enforced abstention from politics. His industry and energy must find em ployment he must speak or burst. And so he spoke, to no small purpose; for it is largely owing to him that our minds are articulate.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330878833
• ISBN 13: 9781330878835
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 34
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