The present paper discusses issues resulting from religious differences between the author and the translator, and influence of such differences upon resulting literary translations which are not only the translation from one language into another but also from one religion into another. The analysed material is a selection of religious poetry of…[Read more]

Artykuł przedstawia mało znaną operę (jak określił to sam kompozytor „vaudeville”) Benjamina Brittena zatytułowaną The Golden Vanity z roku 1966. Autor omawia historię powstania utworu na prośbę śpiewaków Wiedeńskiego Chóru Chłopięcego, a także dzieje siedemnastowiecznej ballady, pierwotnie zatytułowanej The Sweet Trinity, która była dla kompozy…[Read more]

Artykuł poświęcony związkom angielskiego pisarza Edwarda Morgana Forstera z Polską. Na podstawie zachowanych materiałów omawia dwie wizyty Forstera na polskim terytorium i ich ślady w twórczości pisarza, zarówno we wspomnieniach i korespondencji, jak i tekstach publicystycznych, esejach i pogadankach radiowych. Druga część artykułu poświęcona jes…[Read more]

The article presents a little known opera (a ‘vaudeville’) of Benjamin Britten entitled The Golden Vanity (1966). The article presents the history of creation of the opera at the request of the Vienna Boys’ Choir singers, the history of the 17th century ballad, originally entitled “The Sweet Trinity”, which inspired the composer, and comments…[Read more]

The article presents the forgotten Romantic English poetess Caroline de Crespigny, her life and works. The analytical part of the paper deals with two minor Neo-Latin lyrics of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski translated by de Crespigny and included in her 1844 collection “My Souvenir”.

The Odes of Casimire, an edition of translations of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski’s Latin lyrics with facing originals appeared in London in 1646, published by Humphrey Moseley. The little volume seems at first glance an exemplary case of a most proper and correct literary translation. The reader is, after all, offered an opportunity to control t…[Read more]

The article presents various issues connected with cooperation between literary translators and their editors in the process of publication of translations of literary works within the frame of reference of Polish publishing market of the recent decades. The author proposes a list of qualities which should be expected from a good editor of…[Read more]

The present paper discusses issues resulting from religious differences between the author and the translator, and influence of such differences upon resulting literary translations which are not only the translation from one language into another but also from one religion into another. The analysed material is a selection of religious poetry of…[Read more]

The paper presents possible classical inspirations of John Braine’s novel ‘Room at the Top’ (1957). It is an attempt to analyses the text of the novel belonging to the so called Angry Young Period as a tragic work which translated into the reality of the late 1940s Great Britain the myth of Jason and Medea, represented in the text of the paper b…[Read more]

Who Profits from Literary Translation? The article, originally inspired by the studies of Pascale Casanova and Pierre Bourdieu, attempts to answer the question who in Poland profits from literary translation. The concept of “profit” is understood very broadly, both in financial or economic context, and in context of the acquiring and losing cul…[Read more]

Poor Poet’s Complaint: The Place and Role of the Moneybag in English Literature The article presents four British poems from four different literary periods sharing a common theme: complaint about the poet’s poverty. Each of the poems – “Deor”, “Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse”, Barnfield’s “The Complaint of Poetrie, for the Death of Liberali…[Read more]

Presentation of Polish literary translation market at the end of 2011, a development of the article published in 2000.