/lit/ - Literature

Translation. what are the rules for translating poetry?

i have over the years done some casual translations for Russian poets, both alive and dead, simply or the exercise of it.

But now, having looked at them again, i think they are some of my best work and that it would be a shame to just see it wasted.

what are the rules for this kind of stuff? google has given me two pieces of contradictory advice and im now completely lost. can i publish them for free? can i get paid for em? how does copyright affect me?

>>10689566
I haven't written a page of the novel I want to write I keep fantasizing about books that I want to write after it.

Barbara Reynolds translation of Orlando Furioso.

had no luck finding it.

Thanks OP you are a saint.

Looks like i just missed the last thread so here is a new one .

In my day job as a pianist I sometimes write down small poems.
it’s odd but you can think of poems while playing. Music lives in a different part of the mind.


Symphony No. 9


As In hall of deafness still had heaped
a confusion of memories.
The pile awaiting craftsman’s wit;
but he wished he could hear these sobs
when pain forced and hacked in-to tears.
Or, like the huge laugh like a giant’s
that knew that after all it was
hard work to force the chain gang in order

Help me find a poem. I don't remember much, but here’s what I got.


A man is looking at some cliffs on the other side of a Channel or a river of some sort. Wondering if he is all alone. When a stag or a deer or maybe a hose fall’s into the water and swims across to him. It gets out and disappears into the woods.


I thought it was American ( Richard Wilbur maybe ? ) but it might have been Auden or someone like that.

thanks for the help.

Artemis, Nymphs and Muses

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0253349656/ref=pd_luc_rh_top_sim_04_01_t_img_lh?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Start here

>>10171100
>claims to respect mythology and Western culture
>doesn't recommend a single work of poetry

I have many things to write, but can't find the sentence to start it all. I write fragments without beginning. Do you know any clue that would give me the impulse I need?