Who are the best translators (living or dead) of English-language poetry into Spanish, and what are the best anthologies of English-language poetry translated into Spanish? [more inside]
posted by Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh on May 25, 2009 - 0 answers

Looking for a good english translation of the essay Les portes de l’opium by Marcel Schwob.
posted by jammy on Jan 11, 2009 - 2 answers

Whose translation of Rilke's "Eranna an Sappho" begins "O you fierce far-flinging hurler / Like a spear among domestic things / I lay among my kin"? Googling has turned up a few translations but none of them is the right one. I have Mitchell's Selected Poetry of RMR but it doesn't include "Eranna an Sappho". [more inside]
posted by kenko on Sep 6, 2008 - 5 answers

What is the best collection of Zbigniew Herbert's poetry translated into English? [more inside]
posted by inoculatedcities on Mar 23, 2008 - 2 answers

What is the english translation of the following latin passage derived from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum?" Impia tortorum longos hic turba furores Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit. Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro, Mors ubi dira fuit vita salusque patent. [Quatrain composed for the gates of a market to he erected upon the site of the Jacobin Club House at Paris.] [more inside]
posted by meta.mark on Nov 1, 2007 - 3 answers

Which translator of Ranier Maria Rilke into English best balances literal translation with the "feel" of the poems in the original language?
posted by BartonFink on Jun 12, 2007 - 9 answers

Can you help me find the original Greek version of something? [more inside]
posted by taumeson on Aug 10, 2006 - 4 answers

I'm looking for an English translation of Borges online. [more inside]
posted by veggieboy on May 15, 2006 - 7 answers

Can anyone produce a translation of Klopstock's poem "Der Frühlingsfeyer"? By "produce a translation" I don't mean your own (unless you want to!), but I also don't mean "tell me it's in European Romantic Poetry", since I can't find a copy of that book around nor can I get one in time (by Wednesday). I mean post one, or email me one (in profile), or the like. This isn't schoolwork, though it is related to schoolwork—you won't be helping me cheat or anything like that. (I found this translation online but am looking for something a little more faithful, if possible.)
posted by kenko on Apr 15, 2006 - 3 answers

Here's a shot in the dark: In Czeslaw Milosz's "The Witness of Poetry" there's a translation of Wislawa Szymborska's "Autotomy" that is different from the Baranczak/Cavanagh translation in her Collected Works that I'm familiar with. The translation is unattributed -- am I then to infer that the translation is Milosz's?
posted by .kobayashi. on Apr 5, 2006 - 1 answer

How can I turn a translated haiku back into Japanese calligraphy for printing and framing? [more inside]
posted by obiwanwasabi on Mar 30, 2005 - 5 answers

Can anyone supply me with a link to, or scan of, an English translation of a poem by Paul Eluard? Specifically, "Le Dur Desire de Durer" ("The Dour Desire to Endure")? Merci/Thanks.
posted by stonerose on Dec 8, 2004 - 5 answers

Japanese/Chinese/Korean T-shirt question. [more inside]
posted by Tlogmer on May 13, 2004 - 19 answers