Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Remarks on Translation and Translators
Since material progress exists and the capital of science rolls forward accumulating, much of the contents of ordinary prose may be passed on and the former vehicle become obsolete. Let us freely concede that, if some new Caliph were to collect and destroy the last copies of Euclid's Greek, civilization would not be substantially the poorer. But in Art progress either does not exist, or at least exists only in discontinuous series: poetry is much more wholly a work of art than healthy prose is; and my concern will be more largely with poetry. It was Samuel Johnson who said that the poets are the best preservers of a language, because people must go to the original to relish them (april 11, 1776, quoted by Fitzgerald, ii.
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