Is lyric poetry at all worth reading in translation?

no you're only allowed to read literature in its purest form and only once.

>>8221822
It can be.

>>8221822
French to English isn't that huge a leap, so it can be with a competent enough translator who specializes in poetry. Baudelaire himself translated Poe into French so I don't think he'd necessarily disapprove of being translated into English.

>>8221822
You've fallen for a meme. It's absolutely worth reading, don't believe what /lit/ says.

>>8221822
I can be, but there are enough English lyrics to read that I don't read any in translation.

Are the translated poems good? If so, then yes.

Some of my best poetic experiences happened through translations: Homer translated into Portugueuse by Odorico Mendes, Li Bai translated by Pound, Puchkin translated into PT by Nelson Ascher and so on.

I have translated a few poems and I realized that making a translation is easier than writing a poem of your own, because you already have a basis for the rhythm, the imagery is settled and so on. If the guy is able to write very good poems himself, then, there's no reason to think his translations will not be also worth reading.

>>8221822
I have that edition, and found it extremely useful in learning to improve on my weak, conversational French.

>>8221922
Pound's translations of Li Bai are shit m8

>>8223596
>shit
it's called free form interpretation

>>8221829
top kek

>>8223361
>P)
That edition is dope.

>>8223596

People who think Pound is shit are shit m8

>>8223727
Pound isn't a good translator at all. It seems like english isn't your mother tongue so I guess I know why you'd think that

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>>8223361
>>8223764
Parallel editions are great, got pic related for a intro lit course and it helped me remember four years of italian in high school

>>8223820
you speak Chinese?

>>8223820
>English is my mother tongue
>studied Chinese
still would call it a free form interpretation. He kinda knew the characters and just wrote what he assumed they were and creatively filled in the blanks. As poetry, it's really very pretty, shouldn't be read as a translation of the original work though, I wouldn't say that.