TRANSLATION:
AUGUSTUS TAUBER
MURRAY (1866– 1940)
Homer,
The Iliad, With an English Translation.
London: Wiliam Heinemann Ltd; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press, 1960.
"Those
who emphasize the timbre of language and its various other
auditory qualities tend also to think that poetry and even
prose is well-nigh untranslatable into any other language.
Croce cites the translator's dilema as "faithful ugliness
or faithless beauty" (Aesthetic 1901), and Santayana
asks "What could be better than Homer or worse than almost
any translation of him?" (The Sense of Beauty
1896)."
Eva T. H. Brann.The World of the Imagination, Sum and Substance, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (1991)
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