A new English translation of Montemayor's " Cabellos, quanta mudança"
ISSN: 1889-1128
Year of publication: 2010
Issue: 3
Pages: 109-121
Type: Article
More publications in: Liburna
Abstract
As its title indicates, this study presents a new English translation of Jorge de Montemayor’s poem “Cabellos, quanta mudança”. It also contains transcriptions of the original Spanish text and of the four known previous translations of this poem into English – three from the last decades of the 16th century and one from the last decade of the 18th century. It gives, in addition, a brief discussion of each of the earlier English versions in order to convey a sense of the problems involved in translating the original text and to provide the reader with a set of criteria for judging the success, or otherwise, of the new version offered here.