The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in TranslationAdrian Poole, Jeremy Maule Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivaling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another. |
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... arms and armour is : She , that can this weapon use , Fire and sword with ease subdues . Beauty Thomas Stanley , 1651 Liberal Nature did dispence To all things Arms for their defence ; And some she arms with sin'ewy force , And some ...
... arms and armour is : She , that can this weapon use , Fire and sword with ease subdues . Beauty Thomas Stanley , 1651 Liberal Nature did dispence To all things Arms for their defence ; And some she arms with sin'ewy force , And some ...
Page 229
... Arms , to Arms ; I never care : A Bottle's all the Arms I bear . Serve only under Cupid's Banner , Till made a Lord of Venus Mannour . But now I think on't , I am told , That now my youthful Bloud grows cold : Be wise , Anacreon , as ...
... Arms , to Arms ; I never care : A Bottle's all the Arms I bear . Serve only under Cupid's Banner , Till made a Lord of Venus Mannour . But now I think on't , I am told , That now my youthful Bloud grows cold : Be wise , Anacreon , as ...
Page 325
... Arm so strong , The Lance drove on ; and bore the Death along . Nought cou'd his sev'n - fold Shield the Prince avail , Nor ought beneath his Arms the Coat of Mail ; It pierc'd thro ' all ; and with a grizly Wound , Transfix'd his Thigh ...
... Arm so strong , The Lance drove on ; and bore the Death along . Nought cou'd his sev'n - fold Shield the Prince avail , Nor ought beneath his Arms the Coat of Mail ; It pierc'd thro ' all ; and with a grizly Wound , Transfix'd his Thigh ...
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