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Coleridge's art of translation.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a translator)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20070622
Author:Burwick, Frederick

With his English version of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein in 1800, Coleridge established himself as translator early in his career. Throughout the following years he continued in his role as interpreter and commentator on German literature and philosophy. Mays's edition of Coleridge's Poetical Works identified over a hundred translations among Coleridge's poems, half of them from the German. (1) Some of the translations are no more than a couple of lines, a brief distich or epigram. Some, like the The Piccolomini and The Death of Wallenstein, are several thousand lines. ...

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