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From: Bowen, Brenda <BBowen>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:04:45 -0500
I wish I, too, could read Danish and appreciate the story of the Little Match Girl. Isn't it great to know that it may not be Andersen's failing that that story is as dreadful as it seems to be when read in English.
Here's what Robert Frost had to say about the subject:
"Poetry is what is lost in translation."
B. Bowen
Received on Mon 09 Mar 1998 11:04:45 AM CST
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:04:45 -0500
I wish I, too, could read Danish and appreciate the story of the Little Match Girl. Isn't it great to know that it may not be Andersen's failing that that story is as dreadful as it seems to be when read in English.
Here's what Robert Frost had to say about the subject:
"Poetry is what is lost in translation."
B. Bowen
Received on Mon 09 Mar 1998 11:04:45 AM CST
