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Edgar Poe earned a lot in translation to french (translated by Baudelaire).


Thanks, I need to check that out. It's conceivable that Baudelaire made a few improvements. It's certainly not unheard of. Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam is by some accounts close to an original work. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam




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