ENTERING THE CHURCH WITH HIGH WINDOWS: CZECH TRANSLATIONS OF POETRY BY PHILIP LARKIN

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angličtina

Original language name

ENTERING THE CHURCH WITH HIGH WINDOWS: CZECH TRANSLATIONS OF POETRY BY PHILIP LARKIN

Original language description

The year 1922 became an annus mirabilis for English poetry. In that year T.S. Eliot published his Waste Land and Philip Larkin was born. If T.S. Eliot's magnum opus set the path for modernist poetry for at least the first half of the twentieth century, Larkin became one of the most influential poet of its second half. His agnostic poetry defied modernism. Although he published only four slim volumes of poetry ((North Ship (1945), Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1965), and High Windows (1974)) in his lifetime, his work became canonical in terms of its thematic choice and poetic form, which returned modern English poetry to its modern roots, specifically to classic poetry as practised by Thomas Hardy. Larkin's sober and in a sense minimalist poetry, which was also greatly influenced by the work of W.H. Auden, treats the fundamental themes of life, death, love, marriage, destiny, freedom, and disbelief in God. In spite of the fact that he was grouped by literary critics with the Movement poets, Larkin avoided academia and literary circles and he constantly refused to read his poems in public. Therefore the paper argues that Larkin's poetry is poetry designed for private reading from the printed page and performative elements do not play any role. The translators of his poetry have to rely only on the text itself because they have no access to recordings of the poet's own readings of his poems. The paper uses the method of close reading combined with a historical-biographical approach in order to analyse the traditional formal poetics and poetic forms as employed by Larkin. Building upon the literary analysis, the major part of the paper then discusses the use of linguistic means for the uneasy task of translating Larkin's tightly wrought poems.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Interchange between Languages and Cultures: The Quest for Quality

ISBN

978-80-244-5107-7

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Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

177-188

Publisher name

Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Place of publication

Olomouc

Event location

Olomouc

Event date

Sep 19, 2014

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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