>'The most beautiful book in english language' -

>>9091280
I thought it pretty overrated. I prefer the gospel of Luke.

Ezra Pound actually proves that translations might as well be considered separate books from the original.

Finished it last year was a poetic orgy

>>9091280
Source for this quote? Cant seem to find anything Pound says on Ovid

>>9092644

ABC of Reading and he also mentions it in Confucius to Cummings.

>>9091280
90% of translations are shit though. Ezra Pound was a proponent of multilingualism and thought that translations were new works in themselves (hence why he took so many liberties in Cathay)

And he said himself that Homer is untranslatable.

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>>9092660
Cool, seems I need to check out his essays

>>9092677
But he did say ENGLISH language, the question is what translation he was talking about.

>>9092677
Borges thought and acted the same way

It's the only way to actually handle translations

Translations in literature are no different than Hollywood remakes of foreign movies and that's how you should handle and engage with them

>>9091280
You don't need a quote from some faggot to understand the translation thing is a dumb meme that only a handful of underage actually believe in. I mean just imagine the kind of person that would find revelatory the idea that translations aren't one for one with the original text.
I stand firm to the conviction that unless you plan on using the language for other things as well, it's absolute waste of time for your average 4chan shut-in to learn an entire language for the sole reason of reading something in the original. As in, more of a waste of time than being a 4chan shut-in in the first place. Even worse if it's done for some misplaced hedonistic fedora tipping "aesthetic" ideal. Don't worship the fucking words.

>>9092797
'Waste of time' is relative.

Some people shitpost on imageboards, others learn Greek to read Homer.

>>9092797
It's still good to know multiple languages even if it was a dumb reason

Goldman's is actually a really bad translation. Stop fetishizing mediocre books because of its influence on other writers.

>>9092797
kek, you're the type of low commitment pleb that Ezra Pound despised. You're just a consumer. A real artist or serious reader would do well to learn languages for reading great literature. You think learning Greek for Homer or Italian for Dante is dumb?

I pity you. You will always be average.

>>9092808
It's not 1:1 with the Latin, but no translation is. Golding is a master poet and wrote a great book in English.

>>9092797
t. assblasted monolingual retard

>>9091280
sure, but Ezra also said you couldn't be serious about understanding English poetry without being able to read several other languages so what's your point?

>>9092811
4chan autist thinks going on Duolingo to later force himself through texts everyone including his literary idols have read in translation because he thinks it makes him a "true artist". I bet your mom tells everyone you're so smart.
If you're an artist then contribute something. Make art instead of wasting your life fetishising words.

>>9092957
kek, your inferiority complex is showing

>>9092677
90% of books are shit as well. Can't make a good translation of a shitty Original.

>>9092973
Most translations of great works are shit. Especially translations from Greek will never capture the original.

Pound's translations are GOAT though, especially his version of The Seafarer