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Tamil poetry, Yeats and Simone Weil

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Apr 04, 2024
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I write a lot about reading in other languages, but anyone reading widely sometimes relies on translations and finds themselves working backwards from the strangeness of a translated text to imagine something about the language and literature of the original. This week I was particularly struck by two related poems at the very end of an old Princeton Un…

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