Translation and Poetry:Preface to Lost in Translation,the collection of poems and translations by Yihai Chen

摘要

＜正＞The American poet Robert Frost（1874-1963）suggested that poetry gets lost in translation,an opinion that unfortunately has been widely publicised.This view,of course,is a conceit:not only does poetry NOT always get lost in translation,often it is through translation that poetry flourishes.For translation is one of the principal ways in which a literature can reinvigorate itself,can look outwards at other forms of writing and discover and then develop those forms.