Over at the Poets on Fire forum, there's currently an unusual thread about the difficulties that are involved in translating Spanish poetry for a U.K. readership.
My own view of translating poetry is perhaps best summed up by my last post on the subject.
The extreme musicality of Baudelaire’s “L’invitation au voyage”, emphasised
by its very short lines, immediately make me think of Verlaine, but it
combines...
