 | Harold A. Innis - 2007 - 287 pagine
...impassable than the Greek language ."TS Eliot on Gilbert Murray. "Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet." PB... | |
 | Jeannine Johnson - 2007 - 324 pagine
...recalls Shelley's famous interdiction regarding the translation of poetry: the Romantic poet warns, "it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible...that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet."3 According... | |
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Hence the vanity of translation ; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. 
