In the Châtelet
Jeremy Harding, 20 April 1995
François Villon: Complete Poems
edited by Barbara Sargent-Bauer.
Toronto, 346 pp., £42, January 1995,0 8020 2946 9 Show More
edited by Barbara Sargent-Bauer.
Toronto, 346 pp., £42, January 1995,
Basil Bunting: Complete Poems
edited by Richard Caddel.
Oxford, 226 pp., £10.99, September 1994,0 19 282282 9 Show More
edited by Richard Caddel.
Oxford, 226 pp., £10.99, September 1994,
“... all. ‘It goes without saying that faithful translation of poetry is a contradiction in terms,’ Barbara Sargent-Bauer writes in the Introduction to her ‘complete’ edition (based on four manuscript sources and one imprint of the ‘Legacy’ and the ‘Testament’, and a further seven variants for shorter works). One way to resolve that ... ”