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@article{ART003000045},
author={Ha-yun Jung},
title={Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney},
journal={The Journal of Translation Studies},
issn={1229-795X},
year={2023},
volume={24},
number={3},
pages={439-464},
doi={10.15749/jts.2023.24.3.014}

TY - JOUR
AU - Ha-yun Jung
TI - Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney
JO - The Journal of Translation Studies
PY - 2023
VL - 24
IS - 3
PB - The Korean Association for Translation Studies
SP - 439
EP - 464
SN - 1229-795X
AB - Korean poet and translator Kim Jung-hwan has translated a vast body of modern English poetry for over three decades, but due to the lack of critical discourse on poetry translation in Korea, his translations have rarely been reviewed or discussed by critics and scholars. This research offers a close examination of Kim’s translation of The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney, focusing on four poems from different stages in Heaney’s poetic development, as categorized and structurally analyzed by Helen Vendler. The examination finds that Kim strictly adheres to his principle of translating every element as they are in pursuit of “comparative versification,” James W. Underhill’s concept of translating verse into verse, as opposed to paraphrasing, the more conventional approach in English-into-Korean poetry translation. Kim’s strategy sometimes results in compromises in comprehensibility and syntactic flow, but despite these risks, his translations demonstrate new possibilities in comparative versification in translating English poetry into Korean.
KW - literary translation;poetry in translation;Seamus Heaney in translation;English into Korean translation;poetry translation criticism
DO - 10.15749/jts.2023.24.3.014
ER -

Ha-yun Jung. (2023). Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney. The Journal of Translation Studies, 24(3), 439-464.

Ha-yun Jung. 2023, "Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney", The Journal of Translation Studies, vol.24, no.3 pp.439-464. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2023.24.3.014

Ha-yun Jung "Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney" The Journal of Translation Studies 24.3 pp.439-464 (2023) : 439.

Ha-yun Jung. Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney. 2023; 24(3), 439-464. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2023.24.3.014

Ha-yun Jung. "Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney" The Journal of Translation Studies 24, no.3 (2023) : 439-464.doi: 10.15749/jts.2023.24.3.014

Ha-yun Jung. Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney. The Journal of Translation Studies, 24(3), 439-464. doi: 10.15749/jts.2023.24.3.014

Ha-yun Jung. Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney. The Journal of Translation Studies. 2023; 24(3) 439-464. doi: 10.15749/jts.2023.24.3.014

Ha-yun Jung. Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney. 2023; 24(3), 439-464. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2023.24.3.014

Ha-yun Jung. "Kim Jung-hwan’s Challenges and Achievements in Poetry Translation: As Observed in The Collected Poems of Seamus Heaney" The Journal of Translation Studies 24, no.3 (2023) : 439-464.doi: 10.15749/jts.2023.24.3.014