Excerpt from Life and Letters Edmund Clarence Stedman, Vol. 1 The injunction, Do not paraphrase, he particularly laid upon those who might serve him in a biographic way. Traduttore traditore may apply, therefore, quite as well to biography as to translation. This is suggested by Mr. Stedman's saying, There can be no real biography when the real actor is banished from the scene. But when the actor is a poet and thinker his biography consists almost entirely of his own writings, and hence, if these are preserved, he cannot ...
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Excerpt from Life and Letters Edmund Clarence Stedman, Vol. 1 The injunction, Do not paraphrase, he particularly laid upon those who might serve him in a biographic way. Traduttore traditore may apply, therefore, quite as well to biography as to translation. This is suggested by Mr. Stedman's saying, There can be no real biography when the real actor is banished from the scene. But when the actor is a poet and thinker his biography consists almost entirely of his own writings, and hence, if these are preserved, he cannot be banished even by death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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