Fetching Poems from Elsewhere: Ciaran Carson’s Translations of French Poetry

Ciaran Carson is a renowned Northern Irish poet with a distinguished record of translating poetry from Irish, Italian and French. This article focuses on his translation practice as evidenced in his three volumes of French poetry in translation: sonnets by Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud; prose poe...

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Published in:	Interlitteraria
Main Author:	Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	University of Tartu Press 2016-07-01
Subjects:	Ciaran Carson translations of French poetry poetics of translation translator subjectivity original derivation
Online Access:	https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/12973

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