9 octobre 2018
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TTT, « C.S. SHADWELL, "PREFACE TO THE PURGATORY OF DANTE" (1892) », Le traducteur traduit, ID : 10.58079/uy1m
Read the French translation of the text Download the bilingual version of the text (pdf) This preface by Charles Lancelot Shadwell (1892) is part of the historical debate on the possibility of adapting foreign verses in English, be it Homer’s hexameter or, in this case, Dante’s terza rima. In order to reproduce the alignment of rhymes with syntactic pauses, Shadwell offers a translation based on the stanza of Marvell’s “Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” (1650). After studying...