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18 - English Translations

from Part III - Diversity and Heterogeneity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2018

Stephen M. Hart
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University College London
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This chapter offers a brief survey of the main anthologies of Spanish-American poetry published in English translation from the late nineteen-forties to the early sixties. It succinctly traces the change in translation approaches during this period, from an initial emphasis on literal translations to the more personal approaches taken by American poets, who aimed at a recreation of the source poem and who went on to fully integrate translation into their own poetics. The survey further highlights the attention which Anglophone translators have given to the work of three Latin American poets in particular—César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz—and some of the qualities that became associated with their work, such as irrationality and a tendency toward political commitment. The chapter concludes with a final survey of the main publishers who are currently editing Spanish-American poetry in the Anglophone world and some reference is made to the difficulty of moving beyond the names of Vallejo, Neruda, and Paz.

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