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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... tears shed for her lord — and he close by her side . Imagine how his heart ached for his lady , his wife in tears ; and yet he never blinked ; his eyes might have been made of horn or iron for all that she could see . He had this trick ...
... tears shed for her lord — and he close by her side . Imagine how his heart ached for his lady , his wife in tears ; and yet he never blinked ; his eyes might have been made of horn or iron for all that she could see . He had this trick ...
Page 317
... Tears he first approach'd the sullen Shade ; And , as his Love inspir'd him , thus he said . Unhappy Queen ! then is the common breath Of Rumour true , in your reported Death , And I , alas , the Cause ! by Heav'n , I vow , And all the ...
... Tears he first approach'd the sullen Shade ; And , as his Love inspir'd him , thus he said . Unhappy Queen ! then is the common breath Of Rumour true , in your reported Death , And I , alas , the Cause ! by Heav'n , I vow , And all the ...
Page 418
... tears and kisses of a wife ? 45 My last words none must treasure , none will rise And ( with a teare ) seal up my vanquishd Eyes , Without these Rites I dye , distrest in all The splendid sorrowes of a Funerall , Unpittied , and unmourn ...
... tears and kisses of a wife ? 45 My last words none must treasure , none will rise And ( with a teare ) seal up my vanquishd Eyes , Without these Rites I dye , distrest in all The splendid sorrowes of a Funerall , Unpittied , and unmourn ...
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