Volume 20, Number 13 · August 9, 1973
Translating Akhmatova
By Joseph Brodsky, Translated by Carl R. Proffer
Poems of Akhmatova
selected, translated, and introduced by Stanley Kunitz, by Max Hayward
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 174 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Russian poetry has not been lucky with its translations into English. It has been so unlucky that it may seem that the problem is in the Russian language itself—a synthetic, too flexible language which cannot be reproduced adequately in analytic English with its 'iron word-order.' Successful translations are rare.
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