Good translation of Mayakovskii [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Robert Romanchuk]

Hi Subhash,
C. M. Bowra (in his foreword) claims that Herbert Marhsall's translations in
*Mayakovsky* (New York: Hill and Wang, 1965) = *Mayakovsky: Poems* (London:
Dennis Dobson, 1965) sound "uncannily" like the originals. Uncannily, I
heard the same thing expressed by bilingual Russians at a paper on M. that I
recently gave in English. Marshall's translations have many errors: it seems
that he never learned Russian properly. But they are still preferable to
most other English versions -- the text simply needs correcting.
Marshall's edition is also the only one in English that treats the range of
M.'s writing, aside from the unreadable three-volume Soviet edition
(*Mayakovsky:
Selected Works in Three Volumes*, Moscow: Raduga, 1985-).
Best,
Robert Romanchuk

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:41 PM, <Subhash.Jaireth at ga.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was wondering if you could refer me to a good English translation of
> Mayakovskii's poems.
> Thanks very much
> Subhash
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