Russia Brodski poet and Nobel literature prize winner once said, in his mind, W.H. Oden and United Kingdom are synonymous, he is Oden as 20th century's greatest minds.
Such a T.S Eliot and standing, the most famous English poets, for a considerable amount of time, no deep pool of translated into Chinese, although his influence on Chinese poet has been more than half a century.
In 2014, the poet Ma Mingqian Cai Haiyan, Associate Professor, College of Humanities, Zhejiang University of finance and common translation of the Auden poems: 1927-1947 ("Auden anthology" series) published by the Shanghai translation Publishing House, fills this gap and into the end of the year "good books of the year" award.
In January 2016, the Auden volumes--under the voluntary retention of the complete poems of the Auden poems: 1948-1973 also published. Ma Mingqian says in a PostScript, to introduce Auden poems more fully into world of Chinese readers, today it can finally say preliminary made. On April 9, two poet, critic and translator WY, Zhang Dinghao Shanghai Sisyphus Bookstore, together with our readers read the charm of Auden's poems.
Poetry in translation is missing or was saved?
Talk about poetry translation, people will naturally think of United States poet Robert Frost that "poetry is something that has been missing in the translation", but Zhang Dinghao reminded, "in fact, there is another way of saying, as Goethe said, is preserved in the translation of poetry. "
In order to save the essence of Auden's poems, Ma Mingqian and Cai Haiyan did a lot of homework. Before they started translating, one is a poet, a researcher who is Greg Oden, itself to Greg Oden and his poems are very familiar with, but in the face of the complex and profound poetry of masters, they still feel not enough, so two of the Oden had his engagement ring, read books, and even summarizes every detail of life.
A thief readers such as Greg Oden to a prison letter accompany one sleepless all night, old lady, secretly funded the University of Oxford and other anecdotes, Ma Mingqian wish to live through these details feel true Oden, Greg Oden, his character and the writing of poetry.
"Love is a keyword of Auden's poems are very important. His life, too, and it is not a secret. "Cai Haiyan said.
Because every poem is not just conducted superficial translation of the text, so the whole translation process, with poets Ma Mingqian made the initial version of the language-sensitive and intuitive, Cai Haiyan on the basis of this comment and translation is provided detailed comments and amendments.
So even though relatively restrained, but up and down in the two books of poetry, I still receive a lot of comments. "But it is precisely because of these comments, Auden literary heritage trustee – Professor aidehua·mendeersong very pleased. He saw the translators to Auden's sincerity. "Cai Haiyan said.
W.H. Oden
The difference between poet and minor poet
Auden Anthology volumes was mainly under his later poetry. Poems and a lot of his life at a young age wrote different poets, Auden in his later years remained exuberant creativity.
He had been in the 19th century United Kingdom said in the preface of the book anthology of minor poets, a poet to be a poet, to three or four of the following five conditions. Must be more productive; the second is his poem in the subject matter and approach must be broader; third, he observes on the refined angles and style of life, you must display a unique creative; four is the poetic skills have to be an expert on five is that although his poetry was already mature works, but whose maturing process lasts until old age. And the minor poets, although his poems are very good, but you can't judge from the work itself to its creation or formation of ages. In other words, static, static. Simply saying is prolific, breadth, depth and skill, metamorphosis. He said: write a poem is not difficult, but are in various stages, including the final stages of creation, always good poetry to writing different from the past.
WY do not fully agree to these conditions, but he feels that if these conditions are used to measure, Auden was indeed done. "He is personally, according to his own request to live and work on the poet. From this perspective, he should die without any regrets. "WY said. Xiaobo Wu network red Dong
WY seems to understand Auden's poetry, a good reference is Pablo Neruda's poetry. "Neruda's poetry is a Baroque and very plump, imaginative writing. But make an inappropriate example, oden is just the opposite of Neruda, his quiet, restrained, rational, full of wisdom. "So in Auden's poem, we can feel the surge of emotion, but he is a winding way, rather than directly.
It is this pursuit of intellectual attitude, oden is not willing to repeat itself, later in life is still exploring a variety of poetry writing. "The style and skill of the tremendous changes that could be controversial because of his later poetry. "Cai Haiyan said," but in recent years, Auden later poetry in the English-speaking world is also increasing attention and recognition. "
W.H. Oden
Biaodeng, Chinese poet, should pay more attention to our traditional
Auden later poetry, changes, in addition to ideas outside of poetry, and his life is inseparable from the practice. By 1939, Auden from the United Kingdom to the United States, then he was a left-wing poets, even in Spain after the civil war broke out, go there as an ambulance driver, and wrote war poetry's masterwork, Spain.
But in the United Kingdom ahead of the anti-fascist war, he left the United Kingdom and joined the United States nationality, and converted to Christianity, was denounced as a traitor by many people. In this regard, Brodski reminder, oden went to United States and political business, entirely personal reasons. Anyway, 1939 became Auden lived and wrote important go optional point. He began to search for source of English poetry, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and Christians have devoted a lot of energy and enthusiasm, wrote Greg shields of Achilles, to pay tribute to the goddess of CLEO and other works.
Than WY on Auden's early poetry appreciation, Zhang Dinghao prefers later works. In the second half of the 20th century world poetry, daily care becomes the mainstream trend and but later Auden is still skilled and tires of talking about Homer, talking about ancient Greece mythology figures, or the middle ages, which made Zhang Dinghao very feeling,
"We poets (contemporary Chinese poet), can talk about the I Ching, the book of songs like this, including Buddhism, Taoism, and other classics of the past? Even if it is a little bit of trying? "Zhang Dinghao believes that such an attempt, in contemporary Chinese poetry is rare, even a bit, such as neo-classical, just look to the Tang and Song dynasties so far.
Zhang Dinghao, Auden inspired Chinese poets to him is that we can go as far as possible. Ma Mingqian also felt, as an example, oden is a reminder that we have to their native language and culture more to explore and learn. He said that "in the process of translation of Auden's, I get a love of mother tongue, I love my mother-tongue. "
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