i have never really made any headway with french poetry, probably because the old enough stuff obeys such different norms that i just don't get a feel for it in the supposedly hamstrung translations
i read some howard (?) translations of baudelaire recently e.g. and the conceptual universe made sense to me but aside from a sort of stateliness the translations seemed quite devoid of poetry
― j., Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link