"with wing and sweetened fang"
Kafka, Valentine, Crane, Krynicki, García Lorca
Franz Kafka (tr. from German by Willa and Edwin Muir):
Jean Valentine:
Hart Crane:
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Ryszard Krynicki (tr. from Polish by Alissa Valles):
Federico García Lorca (tr. from Spanish by William Jay Smith):
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I wonder why Smith chose to translate Lorca's "En el gris" as "In cold gray." I'd say gray is gray enough without being appended with "cold."