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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... dead ] Elektra's Keening All that is left me my hope was Orestes dust is returned me in my hands nothing , dust that ... Dead Agamemnon , dead now my brother I am dead also , the great wind in passing bears us together . Mirth for our ...
... dead ] Elektra's Keening All that is left me my hope was Orestes dust is returned me in my hands nothing , dust that ... Dead Agamemnon , dead now my brother I am dead also , the great wind in passing bears us together . Mirth for our ...
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... dead and gone . On the cold Mountain lies the wretched Youth , Kill'd by a Savage Boar's unpitying tooth : In his ... dead : Yet Venus never will his kisses leave , The Goddess ever to his lips will cleave : The kiss of her dear Youth ...
... dead and gone . On the cold Mountain lies the wretched Youth , Kill'd by a Savage Boar's unpitying tooth : In his ... dead : Yet Venus never will his kisses leave , The Goddess ever to his lips will cleave : The kiss of her dear Youth ...
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... dead ! is all her cry , Adonis dead ! sad Echo does reply . [ John Oldham ] , 1681 From A Lament for Adonis . From Bion VII I mourn for Adonis - Adonis is dead . Weep no more in the woods , Cytherea , thy lover ! So , well ! make a ...
... dead ! is all her cry , Adonis dead ! sad Echo does reply . [ John Oldham ] , 1681 From A Lament for Adonis . From Bion VII I mourn for Adonis - Adonis is dead . Weep no more in the woods , Cytherea , thy lover ! So , well ! make a ...
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