Whitman in Ukraine

[David Goldfarb]

Regarding Polish translations of Whitman, Czeslaw Milosz translated a 
couple of poems of Whitman between 1946-50 and then translated many more 
later while he was at Berkeley after 1961.  I am not sure offhand when or 
where or if these were originally published, but you can find the 
translations in Milosz, _Mowa wiazana_ (Olsztyn:  Pojezierze, 1986) (I 
think this came out in an earlier edition from PIW).

Best,

David Goldfarb

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Nina Shevchuk wrote:

> Jan,
>  At this point, that would be me. I read Polish decently, and I'm the only person at the archive who could handle transcribing it. Any information you provide is interesting to us. I will copy Dr. Kenneth Price, the Archive co-director on this message -- I'm sure he'll be interested in this as well. Chukovsky mentions at least one Polish translation in his 1919 book, but I'm not at the archive at this moment, and can't tell who it is he mentions.
>  The early translations are always exciting, since they show how Whitman's work entered another literature.
>
>  Best,
>  Nina
>
> Zielinski <zielinski at GMX.CH> wrote:
>  Nina Shevchuk:
>
> before 1954. I've had some difficulty even establishing the existence of
> earlier translations. Does anyone know of any Ukrainian poets translating
> Whitman? Does anyone know of any published translations before 1954?
>
> I don't know about the Ukrainian ones, but have some information about an
> early unpublished Polish translation. Who is dealing with Polish
> translations?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jan Zielinski

-- 
David A. Goldfarb
Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic Languages
Barnard College
Columbia University
3009 Broadway                           dgoldfarb at barnard.edu
New York, NY 10027-6598                 http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb

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