Clive Scott

[ 1 ] - Translating the poetry of Apollinaire: Description of a project

This  article  outlines  founding  principles  and  a  guiding  strategy  for  the  translation  of Apollinaire’s  poetry;  many  aspects  of  the  strategy  reflect  the  convictions  and  practices  of Apollinaire’s own poetics. But the article is particularly concerned to argue that translation’s task is the projection of the source text into its future, rather than being an act of recuperat...