Teorie translatorskie Euzebiusza Słowackiego – w praktyce

Abstract

The article puts together Euzebiusz Słowacki’s proposals on the art of translation (contained in the treatise On Translating from Foreign Languages into the Native Language. A Thing Read at the Public Meeting of the Imperial University of Vilnius on September 15, 1813) and the translation of George Gordon Byron’s The Lament of Tasso by Leon Borowski, which was published in the Vilnius Journal at the dawn of Polish Romanticism. A critical analysis of Borowski’s translation with the original allows us to determine the degree of applicability of Słowacki’s theories. Placing them in the context of both the Enlightenment and contemporary methodological proposals related to literary translation allows us to expand our knowledge of the close relationship between the history of translation and the development of literature in Poland and the early stage of the Polish reception of Byron.