%0 Journal Article
%T Kilka luźnych uwag na temat najnowszego przekładu poezji Eliota (W moim początku jest mój kres, przełożył, komentarzami i przypisami opatrzył Adam Pomorski, Warszawa: Świat Książki, 2007)
%A Ward, Jean
%J Przekładaniec
%V 2008
%N Issue 21 – Historie przekładów
%P 221-226

%@ 1425-6851
%D 2010
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/kilka-luznych-uwag-na-temat-najnowszego-przekladu-poezji-eliota-w-moim-poczatku-jest-moj-kres-przelozyl-komentarzami-i-przypisami-opatrzyl-adam-pomorski-warszawa-swiat-ksiazki-2007
%X 
	Remarks on the most recent translation of T.S. Eliot’s poetry
	In this review of Adam Pomorski’s translation of Eliot’s poetry into Polish, the author
	endeavours to show the translator’s achievement in correcting the rather over-spiritualised
	understanding of this poetry that has developed in Poland as a result of earlier
	translators’ work. Pomorski, in contrast with his predecessors, lays emphasis on the
	‘physical’, rather than the ‘metaphysical’ elements in Eliot’s poetry. His translatory
	choices, while excellently suited to such poems as Mr Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
	or The Hippopotamus, tend, however, to fl atten out references to the spiritual, giving an
	‘over-physicalised’ impression of the poet’s oeuvre as a whole. This translation does not
	entirely do justice to the subtle balance of the physical and the metaphysical in Eliot’s
	poetry; nor does it bring out the unifying element of ‘auto-allusion’. Pomorski thus by
	implication opts for the view that sees Eliot’s later work not as a development of the
	earlier but as a turning away from it. With few exceptions, the translator’s explanatory
	notes are accurate and helpful to the Polish reader. When it comes to sensitivity to
	rhyme and rhythm, Pomorski cannot be faulted. This is both a scholarly and a poetically
	admirable addition to the corpus of available translations.