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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Page 46
... fair - hair'd Queen of love Descends smooth - gliding from the Courts of Jove , Gay blooming in full charms : her hand he prest With eager joy , and with a sigh addrest . Come , my belov'd ! and taste the soft delights ; Come , to ...
... fair - hair'd Queen of love Descends smooth - gliding from the Courts of Jove , Gay blooming in full charms : her hand he prest With eager joy , and with a sigh addrest . Come , my belov'd ! and taste the soft delights ; Come , to ...
Page 254
... fair this tomb , but fair was she it holds . By her name her parents called her Claudia . Her wedded lord she loved with all her heart . She bare two sons , and one of them she left On earth , the other in the earth she laid . Her ...
... fair this tomb , but fair was she it holds . By her name her parents called her Claudia . Her wedded lord she loved with all her heart . She bare two sons , and one of them she left On earth , the other in the earth she laid . Her ...
Page 286
... fair ! Ah charming Beauty ! ' tis a fading Grace , Trust not too much , sweet Youth , to that fair face : Things are not always us'd that please the sight , We gather Black berries when we scorn the white . Thou dost despise me , Thou ...
... fair ! Ah charming Beauty ! ' tis a fading Grace , Trust not too much , sweet Youth , to that fair face : Things are not always us'd that please the sight , We gather Black berries when we scorn the white . Thou dost despise me , Thou ...
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