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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... Pain , or Violence of Face ; 50 Rosy and fair ! as Phœbus ' silver Bow Dismiss'd thee gently to the Shades below . Thus spoke the Dame , and melted into Tears . Sad Helen next in Pomp of Grief appears : Fast from the shining Sluices of ...
... Pain , or Violence of Face ; 50 Rosy and fair ! as Phœbus ' silver Bow Dismiss'd thee gently to the Shades below . Thus spoke the Dame , and melted into Tears . Sad Helen next in Pomp of Grief appears : Fast from the shining Sluices of ...
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... pain , I let it lye , and grew a Man invain : When we were heated well , and flusht with Wine , 25 One sang a Song of Woolf , a curst design , For streight Cunisca wept at the surprize , And soon betray'd her passion at her Eyes ; She ...
... pain , I let it lye , and grew a Man invain : When we were heated well , and flusht with Wine , 25 One sang a Song of Woolf , a curst design , For streight Cunisca wept at the surprize , And soon betray'd her passion at her Eyes ; She ...
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... Pain is the Cure of Pain . If couch'd in two flat Lines each Precept lies , Yet brief and strong the Sense ; let this suffice . [ James Logan ] , 1735 SILIUS ITALICUS Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus ( c.AD 25 - c.101 ) was ...
... Pain is the Cure of Pain . If couch'd in two flat Lines each Precept lies , Yet brief and strong the Sense ; let this suffice . [ James Logan ] , 1735 SILIUS ITALICUS Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus ( c.AD 25 - c.101 ) was ...
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