Robert Fitzgerald's Profile
Brief about Robert Fitzgerald: By info that we know Robert Fitzgerald was born at 1910-10-12. And also Robert Fitzgerald is American Author.
Some Robert Fitzgerald's quotes. Goto "Robert Fitzgerald's quotation" section for more.I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
Tags: Call, Tradition, WorkingIn fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
Tags: English, Fact, VocabularyOne should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
Tags: Indeed, Read, UnderstandPoetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Tags: Elegance, Poetry, RevelationThe invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
Tags: Guitar, Heard, SongsThere must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Tags: Between, Making, PoemsWhat the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
Tags: Comparable, Particular, PerformerHomer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
Tags: Language, Tongue, WholeI think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
Tags: Lucky, Sea, WorkIn a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
Tags: Him, Looking, YourselfIs encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
Tags: Fact, Few, QuestionNow, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.
Tags: Art, Problem, WorkOf course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
Tags: Happens, Language, SeriousThat helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.
Tags: Keep, Language, TouchThe heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.
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