Russian Translations of Thomas Grey's Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard in 18th-19th Centuries

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• 作者：Alevtina G. Stroilova ; Anna A. Makarova ; ^{AGStroilova@mephi.ru" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Translation history ; translation strategies ; literal translation.
• 刊名：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：5 October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：231
• 期：Complete
• 页码：187-194
• 全文大小：189 K

文摘

The article is about the development of translation principles and methods in Russian perception of European poetry. The study focuses on the development of poetry translation with due consideration of the epoch's philosophical and literary views. A poem by Thomas Grey “Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard” was analyzed to study the development of the Elegy translation in terms of strategies chosen by each translator according to their own literal preferences and the requirements of the epoch's taste in poetry. It is concluded that the history of the Elegy's perception reflects the translation evolution in Russia.