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Michael Hamburger est un traducteur, poète, critique, mémorialiste et académicien britannique. Membre de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique, il est surtout connu pour ses traductions depuis l'allemand de Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn et W. G. Sebald, et son travail dans la critique littéraire. L'éditeur Paul Hamlyn était son petit frère. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. mars 1924 – 7. juin 2007
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Michael Hamburger: Citations en anglais

“He was out of tune with what a younger generation of poets were writing, and railed against the shallowness and commercialisation of the modern world, from his fastness: a farmhouse surrounded by orchards in Middleton, Suffolk.”

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Obituary in The Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2099883,00.html
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“Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed him scope for fantasy and for that element of suggestiveness which he considered essential to beauty.”

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Introduction to his translation, Twenty Prose Poems by Charles Baudelaire

“I suppose that I am a very serious poet – except for satirical verse, which I have also been compelled to write, though much of it may be inferior to my more serious poems – perhaps because I am not playful enough by nature, and even my satirical or polemical verse is not entertaining.”

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Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm

“The ploughman ploughs, the fisherman dreams of fish;
Aloft, the sailor, through a world of ropes
Guides tangled meditations, feverish
With memories of girls forsaken, hopes
Of brief reunions, new discoveries,
Past rum consumed, rum promised, rum potential.”

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Lines On Brueghel's "Icarus" http://www.themediadrome.com/content/poetry/hamburger_lines_on_icarus.htm

“I was invited to Romania at least once, but was warned that I should not be free to travel where I pleased in the country, but should be more or less confined to the Writers' Union. Because I ceased long ago to be an urban poet and feel claustrophobic in literary conferences, I could not accept such an invitation.”

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Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm

“It is impossible for a poet to characterize his own work. From other people I gather that I am a gloomy poet, if not a tragic one.”

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Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm

“Translation came naturally to me because as a child I was translated from Germany to Britain.”

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Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm