I see, Kent.
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Kent Johnson wrote:
Ah, justice, yes. Poetic justice! What is it, confound it all?
>to see if translations of a poem are the same poem as the original, if not then when we read a translation of a poem we must be reading a "new" poem.
When we read a translation, and by definition, David, we are reading a 'new' poem.
The best translations, because they are the least naïve, set sail with such self-consciousness.
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