The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in TranslationAdrian Poole, Jeremy Maule Oxford University Press, 1995 - 606 pages 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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... beauty , unearthly beauty , the beauty of Kytheria . And she woke him , and said : Trojan , you sleep so soundly ! Tell me , Do I still look the same And he woke , and he heard , as when you first saw me ? and he saw the throat and the ...
... beauty , unearthly beauty , the beauty of Kytheria . And she woke him , and said : Trojan , you sleep so soundly ! Tell me , Do I still look the same And he woke , and he heard , as when you first saw me ? and he saw the throat and the ...
Page 100
... beauty Fighting men , and call incomparable the lines Of horse or foot or ships . Let us say rather Best is what one loves . This among any who have ever loved 5 Never wanted proof . Consider Helen : she Whom in beauty no other woman ...
... beauty Fighting men , and call incomparable the lines Of horse or foot or ships . Let us say rather Best is what one loves . This among any who have ever loved 5 Never wanted proof . Consider Helen : she Whom in beauty no other woman ...
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... Beauty , this Both their 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 ...
... Beauty , this Both their 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 ...
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