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Robert Fitzgerald
American Author
Born: Oct 12, 1910
Died: Jan 16, 1985
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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Robert Fitzgerald
Poetry Most Revelation Least Elegance
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. Robert Fitzgerald
Say Would Know Call Tradition Go Oral Then Working Homer Now
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not? Robert Fitzgerald
You Yourself Poet Looking Way Say Would Feel Over Him How Go Shoulder Your Now Actually
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way. Robert Fitzgerald
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer. Robert Fitzgerald
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The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. Robert Fitzgerald
Me You Heart You Can Do It Matter Language Values Otherwise See Direct Seems Poem Between Understands How Making Interaction English
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. Robert Fitzgerald
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Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. Robert Fitzgerald
Great Matter Language Latin Slightly Imperfectly Spoke Suppose French Well French Language Read Quantities Understood However Times Greek Different Either Which Certain
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. Robert Fitzgerald
Myself Performer Particular Does Doing Translator Comparable
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. Robert Fitzgerald
Light Weather Wind Important Too Changes Neglect Direction Scene Force Were Yes Landscapes Whole Homer

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