Showing posts with label Translation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Translation. Show all posts
Sunday, May 6, 2018

SAPPHO: Poetry

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A few selections from the Greek poet Sappho (translated by Mary Barnard): #39 He is more than a hero He is a god in my eyes— the...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Lao Tzu: "The Uses of Not"

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THE USES OF NOT Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where the wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Translation

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I'm working on a story about a dead diver (from the POV of the surviving dive partner), and so I made these images today.   Per...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Rough Duty in Virgil's Roman Epic: A Great Read

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Crossley-Holland: An Anglo-Saxon Riddle

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  RIDDLE 61 A woman, young and lovely, often locked me  in a chest; she took me out at times, lifted me with fair hands and gave m...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Pound's "Villonaud For This Yule"

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VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE Towards the Noel that morte saison (Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!)  Then when the grey wolves eve...
Friday, December 20, 2013

"The Wanderer": Burton Raffel Translates From The Old English

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THE WANDERER This lonely traveller longs for grace, For the mercy of God; grief hangs on His heart and follows the frost-cold foam He ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Seamus Heaney: The Boat-Funeral from "Beowulf"

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Shield was still thriving when his time came and he crossed over into the Lord's keeping. His warrior band did what he bade ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Heaney: Beowulf Takes His Trophy

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from Seamus Heaney's translation of the Old English Beowulf, a favorite passage of mine.  But then most of the poem qualifies as such...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Three Coins from Guy Davenport

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I love Guy Davenport's fine collection of critical essays:  The Geography of the Imagination .  He had such a breadth and depth of know...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

The Tide Is Low: Mask and Kelp

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Triton Beached (detail). Perhaps an ancient Greek poet can help us here: Desire the limb-loosener, O my companion, Has beat me down...
Friday, May 11, 2012

"Giving What I Have" : Peter Green, Translating the Argonautika, and the Enjoyment of Reading

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Classicist Peter Green is an inspiring scholar, translator, and novelist.  I've quoted from his excellent The Laughter of Aphrodite: ...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

MUSE

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Across the pale stillness of water keel-carven, these lovely eyes of desire drag the ship to her doom. --Simonides of Ceos (translated...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

"The University of the Waves": Neruda's "El Mar"

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THE SEA I need the sea because it teaches me. I don't know if I learn music or awareness, if it's a single wave or its vast existenc...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Swimming with Neruda: "Drunk with Pines"

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"My solid marine madness": W.S. Merwin's translation of Neruda's "el solido frenesi marino" is a phrase that spe...

"Like a Coin": Neruda and Thoughts about Reading Poetry

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Fairly early this morning, I sat down with my battered metal cup of coffee in my usual cafe, intending to think about my Introduction to Lit...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

"On Your Feet Now": Advice from Archilochos

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Soul, soul, Torn by perplexity, On your feet now! Throw forward your chest To the enemy; Keep close in the attack; Move back not an inch. Bu...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Odysseus: "A Spark Alive"

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But this seemed best to him, as he thought it over. He made his way to a grove above the water on open ground, and crept under twin bushes g...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ezra Pound's "The Seafarer"

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One of my favorite poems in Old English is "The Seafarer," that melancholy lament with the wonderful setting of being adrift, phys...
Sunday, May 2, 2010

Postcard: Lost in Translation

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I'd meant to muse on translating and translation, but I find my mind further adrift than I'd prefer right now. I've studied a f...