gender in translation

[Robert Chandler]

Dear John and all,

> It is difficult nowadays to use rhyme in English for anything other than
> humorous effect, which is why I have serious reservations about rhymed
> translations of Russian poetry.
This is completely untrue.  There are many deeply serious poems still being
written in rhyme.

Have a look at the work of Mimi Khalvati or Richard Wilbur.  Or, going back
only a few years, Larkin and Anthony Hecht.

The problem with rhymed translations is simply that most of the time we are
not skilled enough.  Stanley Mitchell, however, rhymes fluently and wittily
throughout the whole of his recent translation of ONEGIN.

Best Wishes,

Robert

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