The book Essays of Poets And Poetry, Ancient And Modern was written by author Warren, Thomas Herbert, Sir, 1853-1930 Here you can read free online of Essays of Poets And Poetry, Ancient And Modern book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Essays of Poets And Poetry, Ancient And Modern a good or bad book?
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Nay, rather what is note- worthy is not that so much translation is done by inferior writers for gain and as a trade, but that so much is done by men of ability for love and for little hire. What is the strange fascination which induces men again and again to undertake tasks arduous fi:'om their length or their intrinsic difficulty or fi'om both? Why this constant succession of translations of authors already again and again translated 1 The whole of Homer, the whole of Virgil, of Dante, of Cer...vantes, of Camoens ; ^schylus, Sophocles, Eiu-ipides, the Odes of Horace, Goethe's Faust, the songs of Heine, these are tasks men seem never weary of imposing upon themselves. Something there must be in the nature of translation itself, as a function and exercise of human faculty, which underlies this 90 THE ART OF TRANSLATION strange phenomenon. "What that nature is, and what is the true and natural place of Translation in literature, are the questions which these pages are an attempt to determine.
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