Romanticism in Shelley’s and Keats’s Verse and Prose: A Comparative Study | Chapter 12 | Modern Perspectives in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 10

This paper argues that it is almost impossible to understand Shelley and Keats' works without placing them in the context of their time and of Romanticism. On the overall, the poets' selected prose and verse, such as Keats' Letters and Ode to a Nightingale, Shelley's Defense of Poetry, and Skylark, show their postulations in an era marked by significant political and industrial changes that ushered in new literary and social trends. The birds in the poems, from the two poets' respective perspectives, represent ideals reflecting their time's treatment of imagination, nature, and ideology, as well as their own personal experience, knowledge of the world, and prosody. The poets' works are put to the test in Keats' Letters and Shelley's Defense of Poetry. As a result, treating this subject as such allows for both old and new interpretations of the poets' verse and prose. If we follow the study's recommendations, this work applies to both their age and ours.

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Walid A. Zaiter
Department of Languages and Translation, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia.

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Brief Overview of Translating Literary Prose: Problems and Solutions | Chapter 12 | Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 2

This article deals with the problems in translating literary prose and reveals some pertinent solutions and also concentrates on the need to expand the perimeters of Translation Studies. The translation courses offered at many universities in Bangladesh and overseas treat the subject mostly as an outcome of Applied Linguistics. Presently, the teachers and students of translation are confused at the mounting impenetrability of the books and articles that flood the market. Unfortunately, the translators lay more emphasis on the translation of poetry; there should be more research regarding the particular problems of translating literary prose. One explanation of this could be the fact that the status of poetry is considered higher, but it is more possibly due to the notable flawed notion that the novels, essays, fiction etc. possess a simple structure compared to that of a poem and is thus easier to translate. However, many debates have been organised over when to translate, when to apply the close local equivalent, when to invent a new word by translating clearly, and when to copy. Simultaneously, the “untranslatable” cultural- bound words and phrases have been continuously fascinating the prose-translators and translation theorists. The plea made in this article is to admit the fact that there is a lot to be learnt from shaping the criteria for undertaking a prose-translation and we should appreciate the hard work, difficulties, or frustration of the ‘translators’ (go-betweens) in the creation of good sense of the texts.

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Md. Ziaul Haque
Department of English, University of Creative Technology Chittagong, Bahaddarhat, Chattogram, Bangladesh.

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