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| Letters Concerning Poetical Translations |
| By William Benson |
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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations
-I am now going to obey your Commands; but you must let me do it in my own way, that is, write as much, or as little at a time as I may have an Inclination to, and just as things offer themselves. After this manner you may receive in a few ...
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LETTER I.
SIR, I am now going to obey your Commands; but you must let me do it in my own way, that is, write as much, or as little at a time as I may have an Inclination to, and just as things offer themselves. After this manner you may receive in a few Letters, all that I have said to you about poetical Translations, and the resemblance there is between _Virgil's_ and _Milton's_ Versification, and some other Matters of the same nature.
To begin with the Business of Translation.
Whoever sits down to translate a Poet, ought in the first place to consider his Author's peculiar _Stile_; for without this, tho' the Translation may be very good in all other respects, it will hardly deserve the Name of a Translation.
The two great Men amongst the Antients differ from each other as much in this particular as in the Subjects they treat of. The Stile of _Homer_, who sings the Anger or Rage of _Achilles_, is _rapid_. The Stile of _Virgil_, who celebrates the Piety of _Æneas_, is _majestick_. But it may be proper to explain in what this Difference consists.
The Stile is _rapid_, when several Relatives, each at the head of a separate Sentence, are governed by one Antecedent, or several Verbs by one Nominative Case, to the close of the Period.
Thus in _Homer_:
"Goddess, sing the pernicious Anger of _Achilles_, which brought infinite Woes to the _Grecians_, and sent many valiant Souls of Heroes to Hell, and gave their Bodies to the Dogs, and to the Fowls of the Air."
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