Metamorphoses: Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781857545869)

Emerging from the practice, art, and magic of translation, this essay collection concerns itself with the way certain fables of metamorphosis have captured the poetic imagination and how translation--literary metamorphosis--extends this process. The syntax and diction of the prose of John Ruskin, so important to the evolution of Proust's prose style, is offered as an example of the way visual experience can suggest certain methods of approach to the poet. Demonstrated is how, with a wealth of examples and close readings, poetry itself is a form of metamorphosis, raw materials being transformed and realized though literary expression and technique. In these essays a major poet reflects on the core and timeless elements of the poetic craft.


Author: Charles Tomlinson
ISBN-10: 1857545869
ISBN-13: 9781857545869
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2003
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.38w x 0.64d